Norma Crane
Norma Crane (born November 10, 1928 in New York as Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman , † September 28, 1973 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress in film and television. She became known for her cinema roles such as Everything in One Night , Penelope , Ten Hours Time for Virgil Tibbs or Anatevka .
life and career
Norma Crane's mother died in childbirth, so she grew up with her aunt Helen (Hartzband) Zuckerman in El Paso, Texas. After graduating from high school, Norma Crane studied acting at Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas. At the beginning of the 1950s she began her acting career with roles in television series.
Between 1951 and 1973 she appeared in over 50 television films and episodes of television series, including: Adventure in the Wild West (1957), Peter Gunn (1959), Merciless City (1959–1961), Smoking Colts (1959–1961), No case for the FBI (1960), Die Unbrechlichen (1960–1961), Polizeirevier 87 (1961), East Side / West Side (1963), On the run (1965), Big Valley (1966), Dangerous everyday life (1967), Solo for ONCEL (1967), FBI (1967–1970), Jim Sonnett's Trail (1969), The Boss (1969), Owen Marshall - Defense Attorney (1972) or Los Angeles 1937 (1972).
She made her cinema debut in 1956 with a small role in the Vincente Minnelli drama Different from the Others . In the course of the 1960s, other roles followed in films such as Everything in One Night directed by Joseph Anthony or in the comedy Penelope by director Arthur Hiller, alongside actors such as Natalie Wood , Ian Bannen and Dick Shawn . In 1968 she was seen in Harvey Hart's film drama The Wild Years before she acted in the Sidney Poitier crime thriller Ten Hours Time for Virgil Tibbs by Gordon Douglas in 1970 . She played her best-known role as Golde alongside Topol and Leonard Frey in Norman Jewison's award-winning musical adaptation Anatevka .
When Norma Crane developed breast cancer in the early 1970s , her friend Natalie Wood was paying the medical bills. Norma Crane died in Los Angeles, California in 1973 at the age of 44. She was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery , Los Angeles.
Films (selection)
- 1956: Different from the others (Tea and Sympathy)
- 1961: All in a Night (All in a Night's Work)
- 1966: Penelope
- 1968: The Sweet Ride
- 1970: Ten hours for Virgil Tibbs (They Call Me Mister Tibbs!)
- 1971: Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)
literature
- Norma Crane In: Frederick G. Vogel Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture. , McFarland, 2003, p. 296
Web links
- Norma Crane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Norma Crane at Internet Broadway Database
- Norma Crane in: NNDB
- Filmography by Norma Crane in: The New York Times
- Films by Norma Crane with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norma Crane In: Ruth Benjamin, Arthur Rosenblatt Movie song catalog: performers and supporting crew for the songs sung in 1460 musical and nonmusical films, 1928–1988. , McFarland, 1993, p. 62
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crane, Norma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zuckerman, Norma Anna Bella (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1973 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, USA |