Mabel Normand
Acting
Born 1893-11-09
Died 1930-02-23
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
232 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
The Chaplin Puzzle
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Caught in a Cabaret
Troublesome Secretaries
Bright Lights
Hello, Mabel
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
The Masquerader
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Those Country Kids
Sis Hopkins
Mabel at the Wheel
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
A Strong Revenge
Gentlemen of Nerve
Love and Pain
The Parrott Chase
Seeing Stars
The Ragtime Band
Down Memory Lane
A Film Johnnie
Won in a Closet
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
His Trysting Places
When Comedy Was King
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Getting Acquainted
Mabel's Blunder
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Hide and Seek
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Wished on Mabel
The Doctored Affair
The Water Nymph
He Did and He Didn’t
The Diamond Star
His Mother
Bangville Police
The Extra Girl
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Mabel's Married Life
Katchem Kate
Mabel's Busy Day
Helen's Marriage
Mr. Fixit
The Fatal Mallet
Should Men Walk Home?
Her Friend the Bandit
The Gusher
The Brave Hunter
Red Hot Romance
Fatty's Wine Party
The Speed Kings
The Venus Model
Directing
4 credits
Other credits
3 credits
Writing
3 credits
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