Norma Talmadge

Norma Marie Talmadge was born May 2, 1894 in New Jersey. So, she actually already lived where the new movie industry was starting. She had two younger siblings, Natalie and Constance who both became actresses as well. They were really poor and their father one morning when going out to buy food simply didn’t come back leaving the mother to raise three daughters all by herself. She took in laundry, taught painting classes, rented out rooms and sold cosmetics to raise her daughters.