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Maidie Norman was an African-American actor, born Maidie Ruth Gamble, on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis C. Gamble, an engineer, and Lila Graham Gamble, a housewife. Norman, best known for her role as the maid, Elvira, in [| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?] (1962)

Educator Texas College in 1955-56 Artist-in-residence at Stanford University from 1968-69 UCLA created and taught "The History of Black Theater" at UCLA From 1969 until her retirement in 1977

(UCLA gives a Maidie Norman Research Award to drama students for the best paper on the history of blacks in theater.)

Over 200 performances during her career, below are a few examples:

Filmography Burning Cross (1947) The Well (1951) Torch Song (1953) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane - 1962 Maurie (1973) Airport '77 (1977) Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Hostile Witness (1988)

Television Dragnet Police Woman The Jeffersons Marcus Welby, M.D. Little House on the Prairie Kolchak: The Night Stalker Roots, the Second Generation

Awards Outstanding Citizen Award from the Author's Study Club in 1955 Woman of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Sentinel in 1964 Inducted into the Black Filmmakers' Hall of Fame in 1977 Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP, Black Theater Education Award - 1987 California Educational Theater Association in 1985 Bennett College, Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters - 1992

Death Maidie Norman died of lung cancer in San Jose, California, on May 2, 1998.

References http://www.filmreference.com/film/4/Maidie-Norman.html#ixzz0rdwBVqBd http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635564/bio http://www.ibwff.com/2010/02/horror-movie-appreciation-maidie-norman/ http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/cvvpw/gallery/norman.html