Mabel Normand
Born on November 9th, 1893
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
Died on February 23rd, 1930
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.
Filmography The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
Self (archive footage)
Details Looking for Mabel Normand
2015
Self (archive footage)
Details Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Self (archive footage)
Details Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
Self (archive footage)
Details The Chaplin Puzzle
1992
(archive footage)
Details Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
Self (archive footage)
Details When Comedy Was King
1960
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Details Down Memory Lane
1949
(archive footage)
Details Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
(archive footage)
Details Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Self (archive footage)
Details One Hour Married
1927
Character TBA
Details Should Men Walk Home?
1927
The Girl Bandit
Details Anything Once!
1927
The Little Girl
Details Raggedy Rose
1926
Raggedy Rose
Details The Extra Girl
1923
Sue Graham
Details Oh, Mabel Behave
1922
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Details What Happened To Rosa
1920
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
Details The Slim Princess
1920
Kalora
Details Upstairs
1919
Elsie MacFarland
Details When Doctors Disagree
1919
Millie Martin
Details Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
1918
Italian Girl
Details Peck's Bad Girl
1918
Minnie Penelope Peck
Details Back to the Woods
1918
Stephanie Trent
Details The Venus Model
1918
Kitty O'Brien
Details The Floor Below
1918
Patricia O'Rourke
Details Dodging a Million
1918
Arabella Flynn
Details He Did and He Didn’t
1916
The Doctor's Wife
Details Fatty and Mabel Adrift
1916
Mabel
Details Stolen Magic
1915
The Friend's Wife
Details The Little Teacher
1915
The Little Teacher
Details Mabel Lost and Won
1915
Mabel
Details Mabel’s Wilful Way
1915
Mabel
Details Their Social Splash
1915
Character TBA
Details Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
1915
Herself
Details That Little Band Of Gold
1915
Mabel - the Wife
Details Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
1915
Mabel
Details Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915
Mabel
Details Mabel, Fatty and the Law
1915
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Details Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
1915
Mabel
Details Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
1915
Mabel
Details Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
Mabel
Details Getting Acquainted
1914
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
Details Fatty's Wine Party
1914
The Girl
Details His Trysting Places
1914
Mabel, The Wife
Details Lovers' Post Office
1914
Character TBA
Details Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
Mabel
Details Hello, Mabel
1914
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
Details Mabel’s Latest Prank
1914
Mabel
Details The Masquerader
1914
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Details Those Country Kids
1914
Mabel
Details Mabel's Married Life
1914
Mabel
Details A Missing Bride
1914
Unconfirmed role
Details A Gambling Rube
1914
Unconfimed role
Details Her Friend the Bandit
1914
Mabel
Details The Fatal Mallet
1914
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Details Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Mabel
Details Where Hazel Met the Villain
1914
Character TBA
Details Mabel at the Wheel
1914
Mabel
Details A Film Johnnie
1914
Self (uncredited)
Details Love and Gasoline
1914
Character TBA
Details Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
Mabel
Details Mabel’s Bear Escape
1914
Mabel
Details Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
1914
Mabel
Details Fatty's Wild Night
1914
Character TBA
Details A Glimpse of Los Angeles
1914
Character TBA
Details Zuzu, the Band Leader
1913
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
Details Fatty's Flirtation
1913
Mabel
Details The Gusher
1913
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
Details Cohen Saves the Flag
1913
Mabel
Details Love Sickness at Sea
1913
Mabel
Details A Healthy Neighborhood
1913
Character TBA
Details When Dreams Come True
1913
The Peddler's Wife
Details The Gypsy Queen
1913
The Gypsy Queen
Details Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
Details The Riot
1913
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Details Professor Bean's Removal
1913
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Details Love and Courage
1913
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
Details A Noise from the Deep
1913
Mabel
Details The Telltale Light
1913
Mabel
Details For the Love of Mabel
1913
Mabel
Details The Waiters' Picnic
1913
Mabel - the Cashier
Details Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
1913
Mabel
Details The Foreman of the Jury
1913
Mabel
Details Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
1913
Mabel
Details A Little Hero
1913
Character TBA
Details His Chum the Baron
1913
Party Girl
Details Bangville Police
1913
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Details Those Good Old Days
1913
The Peasant Girl
Details Hide and Seek
1913
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
Details On His Wedding Day
1913
Wedding Guest
Details Near To Earth
1913
Character TBA
Details The Rube and the Baron
1913
Mabel
Details Love and Pain
1913
Character TBA
Details Foiling Fickle Father
1913
Mabel
Details The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
1913
The Woman
Details The Doctored Affair
1913
Tillie
Details Red Hot Romance
1913
Señorita
Details Heinze’s Resurrection
1913
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
Details The Battle of Who Run
1913
Mack's Girl
Details Just Brown’s Luck
1913
Mrs. Brown
Details The Deacon Outwitted
1913
Character TBA
Details The Mistaken Masher
1913
Mabel - George's Girl
Details For Lizzie's Sake
1913
Lizzie
Details The Cure That Failed
1913
Character TBA
Details How Hiram Won Out
1913
Sallie
Details A Double Wedding
1913
Undetermined Role
Details Saving Mabel’s Dad
1913
Mabel
Details Drummer’s Vacation
1912
Character TBA
Details Mabel’s Adventures
1912
Mabel
Details A Midnight Elopement
1912
Sally Rice
Details Pat's Day Off
1912
Bridget, His Wife
Details Brown’s Séance
1912
Mrs. Brown
Details A Desperate Lover
1912
Character TBA
Details The Deacon's Troubles
1912
Character TBA
Details A Temperamental Husband
1912
wife
Details At Coney Island
1912
his girl
Details The Ambitious Butler
1912
Character TBA
Details The Flirting Husband
1912
Mrs. Smith
Details The Beating He Needed
1912
Girl
Details Riley and Schultze
1912
Character TBA
Details The New Neighbor
1912
Character TBA
Details The Water Nymph
1912
Diving Venus
Details Cohen Collects a Debt
1912
Character TBA
Details He Must Have a Wife
1912
The Girl
Details Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912
Undetermined Secondary Role
Details The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
1912
The Heiress
Details An Interrupted Elopement
1912
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
Details What the Doctor Ordered
1912
Jenks' Daughter
Details The Tourists
1912
Trixie - a Tourist
Details A Dash Through the Clouds
1912
Josephine
Details Neighbors
1912
First French Family, the Wife
Details Katchem Kate
1912
Katchem Kate
Details Tomboy Bessie
1912
Tomboy Bessie
Details When Kings Were the Law
1912
At Court (Uncredited)
Details The Fickle Spaniard
1912
Marcelle
Details The Brave Hunter
1912
The Woman
Details Help! Help!
1912
Mrs. Suburbanite
Details A Voice from the Deep
1912
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Details Hot Stuff
1912
Hank's Sweetheart
Details The Engagement Ring
1912
Alice
Details A Spanish Dilemma
1912
The Señorita
Details The Fatal Chocolate
1912
The City Girl
Details The Mender of Nets
1912
The Net Mender's rival
Details The Eternal Mother
1912
Mary, the Woman
Details Saved from Himself
1911
The Stenographer
Details A Victim of Circumstance
1911
Character TBA
Details Through His Wife’s Picture
1911
Wifey
Details The Inventor’s Secret
1911
Character TBA
Details The Unveiling
1911
The Showgirl
Details Italian Blood
1911
Character TBA
Details The Making of a Man
1911
In Second Audience
Details Her Awakening
1911
The Daughter
Details The Revenue Man and His Girl
1911
Character TBA
Details The Squaw's Love
1911
Wild Flower
Details How Betty Won the School
1911
Betty's Rival
Details The Diving Girl
1911
The Niece
Details Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
1911
Betty Harding
Details The Strategy of Ann
1911
Character TBA
Details The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
Details Two Overcoats
1911
Character TBA
Details The Changing of Silas Warner
1911
The Son's Wife
Details When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
1911
Mabel, Jack's Wife
Details His Mother
1911
Donald's Fiancee
Details Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
1911
Theresa Girhardi
Details Betty Becomes a Maid
1911
Betty
Details A Tale of Two Cities
1911
Character TBA
Details The Diamond Star
1911
Guest at Dinner Party
Details Over the Garden Wall
1910
Character TBA
Details Indiscretions of Betty
1910
Character TBA
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