Add/Update Information: Maidie Norman - Actor

An American actress, born in Villa Rica, Georgia, USA, as Maidie Ruth Gamble. She married twice and had one child. She was of African origin. She started studying drama and performing in Shakespeare plays as a kid. After graduating from Lima's Central High School in 1930, she went to North Carolina's Bennett College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1934. In 1937, she graduated with a master's degree in theater from Columbia University. She started her career in radio and made her stage debut in 1949, two years after her first cinema appearance in The Peanut Man (1947). Her works include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Airport '77 (1977). At the end of the 1960s, she was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Throughout the 1970s, she was a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her last appearance was in Side by Side (1988).