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Norma Crane (November 10, 1928 - September 28, 1973) (born Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman) was an actress of the stage and screen. Among her best known roles was that of Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She also starred in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and Penelope. Crane was born in New York City but raised in El Paso, Texas. She was a member of Elia Kazan`s Actors Studio and debuted 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.[3] She married writer-producer Herb Sargent, though they later divorced. She died of cancer at age 44 in Los Angeles, California.