Background
She was born in New York City but raised in El Paso, Texas.
She was born in New York City but raised in El Paso, Texas.
Born Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman to a Jewish family in New York City and raised in El Paso, Crane studied drama at Texas State College for Women in Denton, and was a member of Elia Kazan"s Actors Studio.
Among her best-known roles was that of Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She starred in They Call Maine Mister Tibbs! and Penelope. She made her debut on Broadway in Arthur Miller"s play The Crucible.
Throughout the 1950s, she appeared on a variety of live television dramas, first gaining recognition in a televised adaptation of George Orwell"s 1984.
She played Ellie Martin in Vincente Minnelli"s film version of Tea and Sympathy. She appeared in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "There Was an Old Woman".
She guest-starred four times on the Columbia Broadcasting System western television series Have Gun – Will Travel with Richard Boone. She appeared on an episode of American Broadcasting Company"s The Untouchables as Lily Dallas, a ruthless gang leader.
In the story line, fight promoter Dan Muldoon (Dennis O"Keefe) arranges a prize fight aboard the Enterprise.
George Kennedy and Slim Pickens portray Gunner Slagle and Porter Slagle, respectively. A few weeks later, Crane was cast as Sarah in the episode "Deadly Tomorrow" of the American Broadcasting Company adventure series The Islanders, set in the South Pacific. In 1961, Crane guest-starred in the title role in the episode "The Return of Widow Brown" of the National Broadcasting Company western The Deputy.
Authorities believe that she is hiding loot from her husband"s crimes.
She also appeared that year in an episode of The Asphalt Jungle. Norma Crane died of breast cancer, aged 44, in Los Angeles, California.
She is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Los Angeles