Cast

Mabel Normand

Acting

Cast

Mabel Normand

Known for

Acting

Born

1893-11-09

From

New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA

Died

1930-02-23

Also known as Mabel Ethelreid Normand, Mabel Normand-Cody, Muriel Fortescue

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.

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

Biography

The Chaplin Puzzle

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Troublesome Secretaries

Caught in a Cabaret

Bright Lights

The Alarm

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

Down Memory Lane

When Comedy Was King

The Diamond Star

Hello, Mabel

Love and Pain

The Masquerader

Sis Hopkins

Mr. Fixit

Baby Day

The Eternal Mother

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

Riley and Schultze

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

His Mother

Over the Garden Wall

The Venus Model

Katchem Kate

Her Friend the Bandit

He Did and He Didn’t

Mabel's Blunder

The Brave Hunter

Helen's Marriage

Fatty's Wine Party

Those Country Kids

The Extra Girl

The Slim Princess

Seeing Stars

The Parrott Chase

Her New Beau

Fatty's Flirtation

Dead Man’s Honor

The Fatal Mallet

Mabel's Strange Predicament

A Film Johnnie

Betty Becomes a Maid

The Ragtime Band

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

The Deacon's Troubles

Looking for Mabel Normand

Mabel's Lovers

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Mabel's Busy Day

Red Hot Romance

Mabel’s Latest Prank

The Doctored Affair

Foiling Fickle Father

Love and Courage

Lovers' Post Office

A Spanish Dilemma

Mabel's Dramatic Career

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Bangville Police

Hide and Seek

Mabel’s Adventures

Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

Mabel at the Wheel

Stars of Yesterday

A Muddy Romance

A Desperate Lover

Heinze’s Resurrection

Getting Acquainted

The Champion

A Temperamental Husband

Mickey

The Changing of Silas Warner

The Speed Kings