Mabel Normand

Known for: Acting
Born: Nov 9, 1893
Died: Feb 23, 1930 (aged 36)
Place of birth: New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
Credits: 232

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.

Known for

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Mabel's Strange Predicament

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Tillie's Punctured Romance

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A Film Johnnie

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Mabel's Married Life

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The Masquerader

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Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)

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Caught in a Cabaret

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Filmography

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Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

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The Women Who Run Hollywood

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Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Known for

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Tillie's Punctured Romance

A Film Johnnie

Mabel's Married Life

The Masquerader

Caught in a Cabaret

Filmography

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Looking for Mabel Normand

The Parrott Chase

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

The Chaplin Puzzle

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Days of Thrills and Laughter

When Comedy Was King

All in Good Fun

Down Memory Lane

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Stars of Yesterday

One Hour Married

Should Men Walk Home?

Anything Once!

The Nickel-Hopper

Raggedy Rose

The Extra Girl

Suzanna

Seeing Stars

Oh, Mabel Behave

Head Over Heels

Molly O'

What Happened To Rosa

The Slim Princess

Pinto

Jinx

Upstairs

When Doctors Disagree

The Pest

Sis Hopkins

A Perfect 36

Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

Peck's Bad Girl

Mickey

Back to the Woods

The Venus Model

The Floor Below

Joan of Plattsburg

Dodging a Million

Bright Lights

He Did and He Didn’t

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Stolen Magic

My Valet

The Little Teacher

Mabel Lost and Won

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Their Social Splash

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

Wished on Mabel

That Little Band Of Gold

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Getting Acquainted

The Sea Nymphs

Fatty's Wine Party

His Trysting Places

Lovers' Post Office

Gentlemen of Nerve

Hello, Mabel

Mabel's Blunder

Mabel’s Latest Prank