Motormouth Maybelle

Motormouth Maybelle is a major, supporting character in the 1988 film Hairspray, its 2002 stage musical adaptation of the same name, and its 2007 film adaptation, again of the same name. She is the single mother (it's never explained whether she is divorced or widowed) of Seaweed and Inez Stubbs. Motormouth is in charge of Negro Day.

Motormouth is played by the late Ruth Brown in the 1988 film and by Queen Latifah in the 2007 film.