Mabel Normand
Biography
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892– February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress, a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors. Onscreen she appeared in a dozen commercially successful films with Charles Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man as well as sometimes co-writing and co-directing with Chaplin in films in which they played the lead roles. At the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Normand had her own movie studio and production company. Throughout the 1920s her name was linked with widely publicized scandals including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines, who was shot by Normand's chauffeur with her pistol. She was not a suspect in either crime. Her film career declined, possibly due to both scandals and a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923, which led to a decline in her health, retirement from films and her death in 1930 at age 37. Mabel Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. Her film Mabel's Blunder (1914) was added to the National Film Registry in December 2009. In June 2010, the New Zealand Film Archive reported the discovery of a print of Normand's film Won in a Closet (exhibited in New Zealand under its alternate title Won in a Cupboard), a short comedy previously believed lost. This film is a significant discovery, as Normand directed the movie and starred in the lead role, making it a showcase for her talents on both sides of the camera.
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Movies (50)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Looking for Mabel Normand
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)
1998
The Chaplin Puzzle
as (archive footage)
1992
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
1961
When Comedy Was King
as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
1960
All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
1955
Down Memory Lane
as (archive footage)
1949
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
1943
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
1931
One Hour Married
1927
Should Men Walk Home?
as The Girl Bandit
1927
Anything Once!
as The Little Girl
1927
The Nickel-Hopper
as Paddy
1926
Raggedy Rose
as Raggedy Rose
1926
The Extra Girl
as Sue Graham
1923
Suzanna
as Suzanna
1923
Seeing Stars
as Self
1922
Oh, Mabel Behave
as The Innkeeper's Daughter
1922
Head Over Heels
as Tina
1922
Molly O'
as Molly O'Dair
1921
What Happened To Rosa
as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
1920
The Slim Princess
as Kalora
1920
Pinto
as Pinto
1920
Jinx
as The Jinx
1919
Upstairs
as Elsie MacFarland
1919
When Doctors Disagree
as Millie Martin
1919
The Pest
as Jigs
1919
Sis Hopkins
as Sis Hopkins
1919
A Perfect 36
as Mabel
1918
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
as Italian Girl
1918
Peck's Bad Girl
as Minnie Penelope Peck
1918
Mickey
as Mickey
1918
Back to the Woods
as Stephanie Trent
1918
The Venus Model
as Kitty O'Brien
1918
The Floor Below
as Patricia O'Rourke
1918
Joan of Plattsburg
as Joan
1918
Dodging a Million
as Arabella Flynn
1918
Bright Lights
as Mabel
1916
He Did and He Didn’t
as The Doctor's Wife
1916
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
as Mabel
1916
Stolen Magic
as The Friend's Wife
1915
My Valet
as Mabel Stebbins
1915
The Little Teacher
as The Little Teacher
1915
Mabel Lost and Won
as Mabel
1915
Mabel’s Wilful Way
as Mabel
1915
Their Social Splash
1915