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Helen Norman, born Nellie Mills Norman, enjoyed a long career as a performer in Scottish pantomime, variety theatre and as a straight actress on stage and in film and television. She was born in Southwark into a theatrical family in 1907. She died in Glasgow in 1992.[1][2]
Career
editNorman was a niece, and one-time assistant, of the celebrated hypnotist and illusionist "Dr" Walford Bodie. In her teens she was already playing principal boy in pantomime. In 1935, she formed a life-long professional partnership with Scottish character actor Jack Radcliffe as his comic feed.[3][4] In 1936 they appeared together topping the comedy bill in a summer revue at the Jubilee Theatre in Leven.[5] She was leading lady in Radcliffe's show "Revels" in the Tivoli Theatre In Aberdeen.[5] In the 1950s, Norman regularly appeared with Jimmy Logan and Jack Radcliffe in the popular "Five Past Eight" shows at the Glasgow Alhambra, where she played Mrs McAuley in a sketch with Jack Radcliffe as her fictional husband and Jimmy Logan playing the part of their son.[6][7]
Norman also enjoyed a successful acting career in her own right, appearing on stage, and in film and television.[3][4]
After Radcliffe's death in 1967, Norman found herself in demand in pantomime roles.[8] In May 1962, she played Babette at the first complete performance in Britain of "The Fire Raisers" by Max Frisch at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.[9] She played the major role of Amanda in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams in Aberdeen in September 1964,[10] and the Aunt in Hector MacMillan's "The Sash" at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in April 1974.[11]
Film and TV appearances included Country Dance (1970), The Wicker Man (1973), Sutherland's Law (Agnes - one episode in 1973)[12] and Square Mile of Murder (1980).[1]
In her day "one of the great female troupers of the Scottish light-entertainment scene"[13] Helen Norman left her estate to The Scottish Showbusiness Benevolent Fund.[14]
References
edit- 1 2 "Helen Norman - Biography". www.imdb.com.
- ↑ House, Jack (1986). Music Hall Memories. Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing Ltd. pp. 59–63. ISBN 0-86267-167-1.
- 1 2 "Women in Scottish Popular Theatre". University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies.
- 1 2 "The Glasgow Story - Norman and Radcliffe". Glasgow University Library Special Collections.
- 1 2 Littlejohn, J. H. The Scottish Music Hall. p. 91. ISBN 1 872350 05 4.
- ↑ Logan, Jimmy with Billy Adams (1998). It's a Funny Life. Edinburgh: B&W Publishing Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 1-873681-76-6.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - ↑ "Remember when...Jack Radcliffe comedian with a quiet method". Herald (Glasgow). 1 July 2021. pp. M18.
- ↑ Mackie, Albert D. (1973). The Scotch Comedians. The Ramsay Head Press, Edinburgh. pp. 105–6.
- ↑ "Jack Radcliffe Goes Legit". The Stage. 31 May 1962.
- ↑ "Macduff Actress in Famous Play". Banffshire Journal. 22 September 1964.
- ↑ "Capital Return of "The Sash"". Herald (Glasgow). 8 April 1974. p. 2.
- ↑ "Sutherland's Law". www.imdb.com.
- ↑ Mackie, Albert D. The Scotch Comedians. p. 49.
- ↑ Logan, Jimmy with Billy Adams. It's a Funny Life. p. 125.
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