Mabel Normand
Acting
- Born:
- 1893-11-09
- Died:
- 1930-02-23
- Place of birth:
- New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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.
Known For
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
The Masquerader
Those Country Kids
Mabel's New Job
Mabel's Married Life
A Missing Bride
A Gambling Rube
Mabel's Busy Day
Her Friend the Bandit
The Fatal Mallet
The Alarm
Mabel’s Nerve
Caught in a Cabaret
Where Hazel Met the Villain
Mabel at the Wheel
Mack at It Again
A Film Johnnie
Love and Gasoline
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Won in a Closet
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Fatty's Wild Night
A Misplaced Foot
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
The Champion
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Fatty's Flirtation
The Gusher
Cohen Saves the Flag
A Muddy Romance
Love Sickness at Sea
The Speed Kings
A Healthy Neighborhood
The Bowling Match
When Dreams Come True
The Fatal Taxicab
The Gypsy Queen
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Mabel's New Hero
Baby Day
The Riot
Professor Bean's Removal
Love and Courage
A Noise from the Deep
The Telltale Light
For the Love of Mabel
The Waiters' Picnic
The Speed Queen
The Hansom Driver
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
The Foreman of the Jury
Hubby’s Job
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
A Little Hero
The Ragtime Band
His Chum the Baron
Bangville Police
Father’s Choice
Those Good Old Days
Hide and Seek
On His Wedding Day
Her New Beau
At Twelve O’Clock
Near To Earth
The Rube and the Baron
Love and Pain
Foiling Fickle Father
A Strong Revenge
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
The Doctored Affair
Red Hot Romance
A Tangled Affair
Heinze’s Resurrection
Mabel’s Heroes
The Battle of Who Run
Just Brown’s Luck
The Deacon Outwitted
The Mistaken Masher
For Lizzie's Sake
The Cure That Failed
How Hiram Won Out
A Double Wedding
Saving Mabel’s Dad
The Duel
Mabel's Stratagem
Drummer’s Vacation
Mabel’s Adventures
A Family Mixup
A Midnight Elopement
Pat's Day Off
Brown’s Séance
A Desperate Lover
The Rivals
Mr. Fixit
The Deacon's Troubles
A Temperamental Husband
Mabel's Lovers
At It Again
At Coney Island
The Ambitious Butler
The Flirting Husband
The Beating He Needed
Pedro's Dilemma
Riley and Schultze
The New Neighbor
The Water Nymph
Cohen Collects a Debt
He Must Have a Wife
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
An Interrupted Elopement
What the Doctor Ordered
The Tourists
A Dash Through the Clouds
The New Baby
Neighbors
Katchem Kate
Tomboy Bessie
Helen's Marriage
When Kings Were the Law
The Furs
The Fickle Spaniard
The Brave Hunter
Help! Help!
Oh, Those Eyes!
A Voice from the Deep
Hot Stuff
The Engagement Ring
A Spanish Dilemma
The Fatal Chocolate
The Mender of Nets
The Eternal Mother
Saved from Himself
Why He Gave Up
A Victim of Circumstance
Through His Wife’s Picture
The Inventor’s Secret
The Unveiling
Italian Blood
The Making of a Man
Her Awakening
The Revenue Man and His Girl
The Squaw's Love
The Baron
How Betty Won the School
The Diving Girl
Troublesome Secretaries
The Strategy of Ann
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Two Overcoats
The Changing of Silas Warner
Dead Man’s Honor
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
His Mother
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Betty Becomes a Maid
A Tale of Two Cities
The Diamond Star
Wilful Peggy
Over the Garden Wall
The Indiscretions of Betty