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Marla Gibbs

Marla Gibbs

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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Mildred 4 a Million (2024)

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 granddaughter, so she sets out to get a million followers on TikTok. ...

A Snowy Day in Oakland (2023)

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, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own pr ...

Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary (2023)

Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary (2023)

Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s. ...

A Christmas Prayer (2022)

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 doing hard time but keeping his own "faith" while trying to prove his innocence. ...

Bromates (2022)

Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", bros who are roommates, which puts their relationship to the ultimate test. ...

Spirit Halloween: The Movie (2022)

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

Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising (2022)

Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons of entertainment and American culture. The special examines how Black actresses of Hollywood have become ...

Orpheus Star (2020)

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother who'd raised him, a Baptist preacher battling demons of her own. Despite childhood memories of emotional trauma ...

She Ball (2020)

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 street ball tournament. Together, Avery and Shelby challenge local politicians, gangs and their own stereoty ...

One Fine Christmas (2019)

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 season. ...

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

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. ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)

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

Love Jacked (2018)

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 is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel to Afric ...

Please Stand By (2018)

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 Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on her jour ...

Lemon (2017)

Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him, and his own family singles him out as a constant disappointment. Even as he takes a chance on new romance, he struggles to define his place in a ...

Second Sight (2016)

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. ...

The Man in 3B (2015)

Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants a ...

Grantham & Rose (2014)

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 boundaries of their relationship, their lives, and what it means to love, as they take a road trip back to t ...

Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Place ...

C'mon Man (2012)

Unlike most stand-up comics, Jeff actually gets his break but, while on his way to the top, his insecure ego quickly sends his career into a freefall. ...

Afro Ninja (2009)

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 prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up f ...

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)

Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy in America, from the earliest minstrel shows to the latest HBO special. Featuring ...

The Heart Specialist (2006)

Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutelage of chief resident Dr. Sidney Zachary. With help from his girlfriend, "Dr. Z" sets out to mold Ray into ...

Love on Layaway (2005)

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 production looks at the lives of three very different couples living in the same Philadelphia brownstone. A sing ...

The Visit (2001)

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

The Brothers (2001)

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 playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to come to terms with their own issues of ...

Stanley's Gig (2000)

An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence. ...

Lost & Found (1999)

In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero. ...

Foolish (1999)

'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 to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen "professions," their biggest ...

Border to Border (1998)

Border to Border (1998)

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

Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special (1997)

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

Lily in Winter (1994)

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 son Michael stows away for the ride. Together, Lily and Michael realize just how alike and how different the ...

The Meteor Man (1993)

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 information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community ...

Up Against the Wall (1991)

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

Menu for Murder (1990)

Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsom ...

Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide (1988)

Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide (1988)

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 situations involving the use of illegal drugs. ...

Your Alcohol I.Q. (1988)

Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out! ...

Night of 100 Stars II (1985)

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 taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" ...

The Young Landlords (1983)

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

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)

Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)

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

You Can't Take it With You (1979)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted ...

Passing Through (1977)

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 who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and ...

The Missing Are Deadly (1975)

An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks. ...

Black Belt Jones (1974)

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on ...

Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973)

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

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

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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