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Mabel Normand
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
Born November 9, 1893Died February 23, 1930 (36 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2020 | Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté · as Cast |
| 2005 | |
| 1986 | Classic Comedy Teams · as Mabel (segment "the Keystone Kops") |
| 1982 | Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter · as Actress - Unidentified Mack Sennett Film |
| 1980 | Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp · as Actress Mentioned In Several Films |
| 1963 | 30 Years of Fun · as Cast |
| 1962 | Crazy Days · as Various |
| 1960 | When Comedy Was King · as Edited From 'fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive Footage) |
| 1955 | All in Good Fun · as Archive Footage |
| 1949 | Down Memory Lane · as (archive Footage) |
| 1927 | Anything Once! · as The Little Girl |
| 1926 | Raggedy Rose · as Raggedy Rose |
| 1923 | The Extra Girl · as Sue Graham |
| 1923 | Suzanna · as Suzanna |
| 1921 | Molly O' · as Molly O'dair |
| 1920 | What Happened to Rosa · as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro |
| 1920 | The Slim Princess · as Kalora |
| 1918 | Mickey · as Mickey |
| 1918 | The Floor Below · as Patricia O'rourke |
| 1916 | Fatty and Mabel Adrift · as Mabel |
| 1915 | Mabel, Fatty and the Law · as Mabel - Fatty's Wife |
| 1914 | Tillie's Punctured Romance · as Mabel |
| 1914 | A Fair Exchange · as Ambrose's Wife Mabel |
| 1914 | His Trysting Place · as Mabel, The Wife |
| 1914 | Gentlemen of Nerve · as Mabel |
| 1914 | Mabel's Blunder · as Mabel |
| 1914 | The Masquerader · as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited) |
| 1914 | Mabel's Married Life · as Mabel |
| 1914 | Mabel's Busy Day · as Mabel |
| 1914 | The Fatal Mallet · as Pretty Girl (uncredited) |
| 1914 | Caught in a Cabaret · as Mabel |
| 1914 | Mabel at the Wheel · as Mabel |
| 1914 | A Film Johnnie · as Mabel |
| 1914 | Mabel's Strange Predicament · as Mabel |
| 1914 | |
| 1913 | The Champion · as Mabel |
| 1913 | The Gusher · as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart |
| 1913 | Cohen Saves the Flag · as Mabel |
| 1913 | The Speed Kings · as Mabel |
| 1913 | |
| 1913 | The Bowling Match · as Mabel |
| 1913 | |
| 1913 | Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life · as Mabel |
| 1913 | The Foreman of the Jury · as Mabel |
| 1913 | Hubby's Job · as Wifey |
| 1913 | Bangville Police · as Della, The Farmer's Daughter |
| 1913 | Father's Choice · as Mabel |
| 1913 | A Game of Poker · as Cast |
| 1913 | Hide and Seek · as Mabel Brown - The Boss's Daughter |
| 1913 | Her New Beau · as Mabel |
| 1913 | The Rube and the Baron · as Mabel |
| 1913 | Foiling Fickle Father · as Mabel |
| 1913 | A Doctored Affair · as Tillie |
| 1913 | A Red Hot Romance · as Señorita |
| 1913 | Heinze's Resurrection · as Uncredited / Unconfirmed |
| 1913 | The Battle of Who Run · as Mack's Girl |
| 1913 | |
| 1913 | For Lizzie's Sake · as Lizzie |
| 1913 | The Cure That Failed · as Mabel |
| 1913 | How Hiram Won Out · as Sallie |
| 1913 | A Double Wedding · as Undetermined Role |
| 1912 | |
| 1912 | A Family Mixup · as A Wife |
| 1912 | |
| 1912 | At It Again · as Mrs. Smith |
| 1912 | The Flirting Husband · as Mrs. Smith |
| 1912 | |
| 1912 | The Beating He Needed · as Girl |
| 1912 | |
| 1912 | An Interrupted Elopement · as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart |
| 1912 | The Fatal Chocolate · as The City Girl |
| 1912 | The Mender of Nets · as The Net Mender's Rival |
| 1912 | The Engagement Ring · as Alice |
| 1911 | The Making of a Man · as In Second Audience |
| 1911 | The Baron · as The Heiress |
| 1911 | The Diving Girl · as The Niece |