Marla Gibbs

Marla Gibbs

Birthday: 1931-06-14

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marla Gibbs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Meteor Man
The Meteor Man

One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he...

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Foolish
Foolish

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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of th...

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Lost & Found
Lost & Found

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Second Sight
Second Sight

Cursed with horrifying visions of the future, Tatyana Ali stars as a woman looking to save a kidnapp...

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Yours, Mine and Ours
Yours, Mine and Ours

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come togeth...

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Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising

Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have i...

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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman

A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local ra...

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The Young Landlords
The Young Landlords

Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought fo...

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The Heart Specialist
The Heart Specialist

Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, un...

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Madea's Witness Protection
Madea's Witness Protection

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C'mon Man
C'mon Man

Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons....

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Spirit Halloween: The Movie
Spirit Halloween: The Movie

A group of middle schoolers must survive a night inside a haunted Spirit Halloween store....

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Lily in Winter
Lily in Winter

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Lemon
Lemon

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Grantham & Rose
Grantham & Rose

When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American wom...

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Your Alcohol I.Q.
Your Alcohol I.Q.

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Afro Ninja
Afro Ninja

This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's...

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Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special

Whoopi Goldberg is the voice of Mother Goose in this all-star, all-rhyming tale set in multi-ethnic ...

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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it....

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Menu for Murder
Menu for Murder

Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the o...

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You Can't Take it With You
You Can't Take it With You

Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning co...

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Bromates
Bromates

Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a liv...

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A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Prayer

When a former alcoholic and now respected leader of the local church gets accused of a heinous crime...

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A Snowy Day in Oakland
A Snowy Day in Oakland

A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who ...

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The Last Revolutionary
The Last Revolutionary

Two African Americans fight against a far right group....

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Stanley's Gig
Stanley's Gig

An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an u...

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Night of 100 Stars II
Night of 100 Stars II

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...

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The Man in 3B
The Man in 3B

Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neigh...

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Please Stand By
Please Stand By

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page S...

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Passing Through
Passing Through

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white...

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Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary
Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary

Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a l...

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Love Jacked
Love Jacked

Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wan...

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The Missing Are Deadly
The Missing Are Deadly

An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's...

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The Visit
The Visit

A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his ...

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The Brothers
The Brothers

This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy")...

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She Ball
She Ball

On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts enlists a talented basketball playe...

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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in...

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One Fine Christmas
One Fine Christmas

The families on Christmas Street have been so busy with their day-to-day lives that they lose sight ...

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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."...

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Love on Layaway
Love on Layaway

Marla Gibbs narrates a filmed staging of playwright David E. Talbert's comedy-drama. Directed by Tal...

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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide

Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to hel...

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Up Against the Wall
Up Against the Wall

A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a s...

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Mildred 4 a Million
Mildred 4 a Million

Mildred 4 a Million is a poignant comedy about a great grandma who desperately wants to connect with...

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Border to Border
Border to Border

Rambling indie about the people a couple of ramblers meet as they race from place to place....

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Orpheus Star
Orpheus Star

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to se...

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Jalen Vs. Everybody
Jalen Vs. Everybody

Follows former NBA star and current TV personality Jalen Rose as he juggles his career responsibilit...

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Black Belt Jones
Black Belt Jones

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the mar...

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The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There

The NBC All Star Hour (1985) was a one-hour primetime television special that brought together stars...

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