Audree Norton, who many consider the first deaf actress to appear in a featured role on an American network TV series, has died. She was 88. Norton, a founding member of The National Theatre of the Deaf, died April 22 in Fremont, Calif., her family announced. In September 1968, on “The Silent Cry,” the episode that kicked off the second season of the CBS crime drama Mannix, Norton starred as a deaf woman who, while reading the lips of a man talking inside a phone booth, realizes that he’s plotting to kidnap someone. She seeks out good-guy private
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- 5/11/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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