Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 09, 1893
Died
Feb 23, 1930
Place of Birth
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
Credits
232 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
The Parrott Chase
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
The Chaplin Puzzle
(archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
(archive footage) (uncredited)
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
Down Memory Lane
(archive footage)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Stars of Yesterday
Self
One Hour Married
Should Men Walk Home?
The Girl Bandit
Anything Once!
The Little Girl
The Nickel-Hopper
Paddy
Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose
The Extra Girl
Sue Graham
Suzanna
Suzanna
Seeing Stars
Self
Oh, Mabel Behave
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Head Over Heels
Tina
Molly O'
Molly O'Dair
What Happened To Rosa
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
The Slim Princess
Kalora
Pinto
Pinto
Jinx
The Jinx
Upstairs
Elsie MacFarland
When Doctors Disagree
Millie Martin
The Pest
Jigs
Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins
A Perfect 36
Mabel
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Italian Girl
Peck's Bad Girl
Minnie Penelope Peck
Mickey
Mickey
Back to the Woods
Stephanie Trent
The Venus Model
Kitty O'Brien
The Floor Below
Patricia O'Rourke
Joan of Plattsburg
Joan
Dodging a Million
Arabella Flynn
Bright Lights
Mabel
He Did and He Didn’t
The Doctor's Wife
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Mabel
Stolen Magic
The Friend's Wife
My Valet
Mabel Stebbins
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher