Marla Gibbs
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Marla Gibbs (born June 14, 1931) is an American television and film actress and singer. She is best remembered for playing Isabel Sanford's and Sherman Hemsley's sarcastic maid, Florence Johnston, on The Jeffersons and spinoff Checking In. She also starred as Mary Jenkins on the television series 227.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.71 |
| Birthday | 1931-06-14 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As |
1993
The Meteor Man
5.8/172
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the informatio...
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The Meteor Man
1999
Foolish
6.091/11
'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying...
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Foolish
2009
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
8/6
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of...
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
1999
Lost & Found
5.1/91
In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero.
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Lost & Found
2016
Second Sight
0/0
Cursed with horrifying visions of the future, Tatyana Ali stars as a woman looking to save a kidnapped girl in this TV One original movie.
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Second Sight
1968
Yours, Mine and Ours
6.77/135
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
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Yours, Mine and Ours
2022
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
6/3
Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons...
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Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
1973
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
6/1
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
1983
The Young Landlords
0/0
Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.
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The Young Landlords
2006
The Heart Specialist
5.3/5
Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutela...
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The Heart Specialist
2012
Madea's Witness Protection
6.084/173
For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfea...
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Madea's Witness Protection
2012
C'mon Man
7/3
Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.
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C'mon Man
2022
Spirit Halloween: The Movie
5.9/83
A group of middle schoolers discover a Spirit Halloween store is haunted and must survive the night.
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Spirit Halloween: The Movie
1994
Lily in Winter
7.2/4
Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old so...
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Lily in Winter
2017
Lemon
4.577/52
A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
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Lemon
2014
Grantham & Rose
6.4/7
When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American woman named Rose Price, Grantham and Rose push the bo...
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Grantham & Rose
1988
Your Alcohol I.Q.
0/0
Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
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Your Alcohol I.Q.
2009
Afro Ninja
4.8/5
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real pro...
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Afro Ninja
1997
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
6.7/3
Whoopi Goldberg is the voice of Mother Goose in this all-star, all-rhyming tale set in multi-ethnic nursery-rhyme land.
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Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
6/1
The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1990
Menu for Murder
5/2
Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly fall...
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Menu for Murder
1979
You Can't Take it With You
0/0
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a sl...
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You Can't Take it With You
2022
Bromates
4.8/27
Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", b...
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Bromates
2022
A Christmas Prayer
5.5/2
When a former alcoholic and now respected leader of the local church gets accused of a heinous crime, he struggles with the possibility of not only do...
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A Christmas Prayer
2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland
8.2/6
A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime...
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A Snowy Day in Oakland
The Last Revolutionary
0/0
Two African Americans fight against a far right group.
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The Last Revolutionary
2000
Stanley's Gig
5.8/4
An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteus...
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Stanley's Gig
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/2
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
2015
The Man in 3B
6.2/11
Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talki...
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The Man in 3B
2018
Please Stand By
6.8/465
A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollyw...
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Please Stand By
1977
Passing Through
5/3
Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters w...
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Passing Through
Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary
9/0
An enthralling story of the story of five guys from L.A.’s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s.
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Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary
2018
Love Jacked
6.1/152
Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed...
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Love Jacked
1975
The Missing Are Deadly
5/1
An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable vir...
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The Missing Are Deadly
2001
The Visit
7.6/6
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
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The Visit
2001
The Brothers
6.6/45
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the play...
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The Brothers
2020
She Ball
7.2/9
On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts enlists a talented basketball player, Shelby, to help him win the grand prize in a st...
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She Ball
2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
7/4872
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
One Fine Christmas
6/4
The families on Christmas Street have been so busy with their day-to-day lives that they lose sight of the importance of family during the holiday sea...
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One Fine Christmas
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
6.5/32
Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2005
Love on Layaway
0/0
Marla Gibbs narrates a filmed staging of playwright David E. Talbert's comedy-drama. Directed by Talbert and Leslie Small, this fly-on-the-wall produc...
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Love on Layaway
1988
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
0/0
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...
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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1991
Up Against the Wall
10/1
A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.
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Up Against the Wall
2024
Mildred 4 a Million
0/0
Mildred 4 a Million is a poignant comedy about a great grandma who desperately wants to connect with her 7-year-old tablet-obsessed great granddaughte...
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