Maidie Norman

Maidie Norman
Date of Birth: 16 Oct 1912
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor)
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation. (imdb)
Airport \
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water. (imdb)
Written on the Wind
Mitch Wayne and Kyle Hadley, the playboy son of an oil tycoon, have been best friends since childhood... (imdb)
Movie Movie
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
The Well
In a racially mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted... (imdb)
4 for Texas
Frank Sinatra plays a tough guy who hooks up with fellow rat packer Dean Martin to open a casino in this western. (imdb)
A Star Is Born
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress. (imdb)
Maurie
When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation. (imdb)
Manhandled
The secretary to a phony psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger. (imdb)
Torch Song
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior. (imdb)
Sixteen
A beautiful young girl from the country experiences life's bittersweet realities in this coming-of-age drama set in the rural South. When a highway is built near her home and a traveling carnival comes to town, the teenage Naomi (Simone Griffeth) falls in love for the first time and is exposed to the seedier side of human nature.
Susan Slept Here
Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquent Debbie Reynolds. (imdb)
Money from Home
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin, Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse. Goons and mobsters are also lurking around; so beware! (imdb)
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers. Their work has the blessing of the U.N.'s Dr. Celliers, close friend of the Sukulu chief. The hunters send the animals across a river where they can be shot, and the natives throw the good doctor and his nurse into a lion pit. Tarzan ape-calls the animals to safety and rescues the medicos. (imdb)
Forever Female
Aging actress Ginger Rogers refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role any longer. (imdb)
The Final Comedown
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs. (imdb)
About Mrs. Leslie
A rooming house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks (imdb)
Bright Road
Jane Richards is a young 4th-grade teacher in the South who has a problem in her classroom with 11-year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and an exalted liar. Jane believes in him, discovers that he has an interest in nature when he spends his time watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops a cocoon. C. T. is devoted to his family and also to little Tanya, who adores him. (imdb)
Mad at the World
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The Wolf Pack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the Wolf Pack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve. (imdb)
The Burning Cross
The Burning Cross focuses on a veteran who returns to his hometown in the South following World War II. Unable to find employment, the veteran joins the Ku Klux Klan, but is disturbed by its violent activities.
A Dream for Christmas
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.
The Peanut Man
Biography of the Tuskegee Institute educator whose scientific experiments with peanuts led to his developing hundreds of uses for the crop and helped the economy of the southern farmers, while advancing the stature of African-Americans.
The Sty of the Blind Pig
An uprooted African-American family is forced to confront their traditional values and ponder the effect that the emerging civil rights movement will have on their lives after relocating from the deep-south to Chicago in the filmed version of Phillip Hayes Dean's insightful and acclaimed stage play.
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
An Arab terrorist is smuggled out of West Beirut by American secret forces, he is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and killing five innocent people including a five-year-old child. An unprecedented trial commences as he is charged under a new Federal statute declaring murder of American civilians overseas a felony. Resnick, a Law Professor at a prestigious university hasn't fought a case in years. But he is one of the all time best defense lawyers in the country.
Thornwell
Thornwell (1981) - TV Movie
Fact-based drama about a US soldier who was the victim of torture by his own side, and was also administered drugs to him without his knowledge as part of an experiment. Starring Glynn Turman and Vincent Gardenia (tvguide.co.uk/detail/904854/110339198/conspiracy-exposed-the-james-thornwell-story-1981)
The Twilight Zone
Kolchak: The Night Stalker