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Mabel Normand

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Mabel Normand

Born November 9, 1893 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USADied February 23, 1930214 films

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.

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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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Tillie's Punctured Romance posterFirst watchTillie's Punctured Romance19146.2as MabelA womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Mabel's Married Life poster5.9Mabel's Married Life1914Mabel's Strange Predicament poster5.4Mabel's Strange Predicament1914The Masquerader poster5.7The Masquerader1914His Trysting Places poster6.2His Trysting Places1914A Film Johnnie poster5.5A Film Johnnie1914Caught in a Cabaret poster5.8Caught in a Cabaret1914Getting Acquainted poster5.4Getting Acquainted1914

Filmography

214 films as actor
  1. 1927One Hour Married
  2. 1927Should Men Walk Home?The Girl Bandit
  3. 1927Anything Once!The Little Girl
  4. 1926The Nickel-HopperPaddy
  5. 1926Raggedy RoseRaggedy Rose
  6. 1923The Extra GirlSue Graham
  7. 1923SuzannaSuzanna
  8. 1922Oh, Mabel BehaveThe Innkeeper's Daughter
  9. 1922Head Over HeelsTina
  10. 1921Molly O'Molly O'Dair
  11. 1920What Happened To RosaMayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
  12. 1920The Slim PrincessKalora
  13. 1920PintoPinto
  14. 1919JinxThe Jinx
  15. 1919UpstairsElsie MacFarland
  16. 1919When Doctors DisagreeMillie Martin
  17. 1919The PestJigs
  18. 1919Sis HopkinsSis Hopkins
  19. 1918A Perfect 36Mabel
  20. 1918Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your HandItalian Girl
  21. 1918Peck's Bad GirlMinnie Penelope Peck
  22. 1918MickeyMickey
  23. 1918Back to the WoodsStephanie Trent
  24. 1918The Venus ModelKitty O'Brien
  25. 1918The Floor BelowPatricia O'Rourke
  26. 1918Joan of PlattsburgJoan
  27. 1918Dodging a MillionArabella Flynn
  28. 1916Bright LightsMabel
  29. 1916He Did and He Didn’tThe Doctor's Wife
  30. 1916Fatty and Mabel AdriftMabel
  31. 1915Stolen MagicThe Friend's Wife
  32. 1915My ValetMabel Stebbins
  33. 1915The Little TeacherThe Little Teacher
  34. 1915Mabel Lost and WonMabel
  35. 1915Mabel’s Wilful WayMabel
  36. 1915Their Social Splash
  37. 1915Wished on MabelMabel
  38. 1915That Little Band Of GoldMabel - the Wife
  39. 1915Mabel and Fatty’s Married LifeMabel
  40. 1915Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego ExpositionMabel
  41. 1915Mabel, Fatty and the LawMabel - Fatty's Wife
  42. 1915Fatty and Mabel’s Simple LifeMabel
  43. 1915Mabel and Fatty's Wash DayMabel
  44. 1914Tillie's Punctured RomanceMabel
  45. 1914Getting AcquaintedAmbrose's Wife Mabel
  46. 1914The Sea NymphsMabel
  47. 1914Fatty's Wine PartyThe Girl
  48. 1914His Trysting PlacesMabel, The Wife
  49. 1914Lovers' Post Office
  50. 1914Gentlemen of NerveMabel
  51. 1914Hello, MabelMabel - the 'Hello' Girl
  52. 1914Mabel's BlunderMabel
  53. 1914Mabel’s Latest PrankMabel
  54. 1914The MasqueraderActress Outside Studio (uncredited)
  55. 1914Those Country KidsMabel
  56. 1914Mabel's New JobMabel
  57. 1914Mabel's Married LifeMabel
  58. 1914A Missing BrideUnconfirmed role
  59. 1914A Gambling RubeUnconfimed role
  60. 1914Mabel's Busy DayMabel
  61. 1914Her Friend the BanditMabel
  62. 1914The Fatal MalletPretty Girl (uncredited)
  63. 1914The Alarm
  64. 1914Mabel’s NerveMabel
  65. 1914Caught in a CabaretMabel
  66. 1914Where Hazel Met the Villain
  67. 1914Mabel at the WheelMabel
  68. 1914Mack at It AgainMabel
  69. 1914A Film JohnnieMabel
  70. 1914Love and Gasoline
  71. 1914Mabel's Strange PredicamentMabel
  72. 1914Mabel’s Bear EscapeMabel
  73. 1914Won in a ClosetMabel
  74. 1914Mabel’s Stormy Love AffairMabel
  75. 1914Fatty's Wild Night
  76. 1914A Misplaced FootMabel
  77. 1914A Glimpse of Los Angeles
  78. 1913The ChampionMabel
  79. 1913Zuzu, the Band LeaderMabel - Zuzu's Admirer
  80. 1913Fatty's FlirtationMabel
  81. 1913The GusherOil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
  82. 1913Cohen Saves the FlagMabel
  83. 1913A Muddy RomanceMabel
  84. 1913Love Sickness at SeaMabel
  85. 1913The Speed KingsMabel
  86. 1913A Healthy Neighborhood
  87. 1913The Bowling MatchMabel
  88. 1913When Dreams Come TrueThe Peddler's Wife
  89. 1913The Fatal TaxicabMabel
  90. 1913The Gypsy QueenThe Gypsy Queen
  91. 1913Mabel's Dramatic CareerMabel, the Kitchen Maid
  92. 1913Mabel's New HeroMabel
  93. 1913Baby Day
  94. 1913The RiotMabel - Cohen's Daughter
  95. 1913Professor Bean's RemovalMabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
  96. 1913Love and CourageThe Country Boy's Sweetheart
  97. 1913A Noise from the DeepMabel
  98. 1913The Telltale LightMabel
  99. 1913For the Love of MabelMabel
  100. 1913The Waiters' PicnicMabel - the Cashier
  101. 1913The Speed QueenNellie
  102. 1913The Hansom DriverMabel
  103. 1913Barney Oldfield's Race for a LifeMabel
  104. 1913The Foreman of the JuryMabel
  105. 1913Hubby’s JobWifey
  106. 1913Mabel’s Awful MistakesMabel
  107. 1913A Little Hero
  108. 1913The Ragtime BandMabel
  109. 1913His Chum the BaronParty Girl
  110. 1913Bangville PoliceDella, the Farmer's Daughter
  111. 1913Father’s ChoiceMabel
  112. 1913Those Good Old DaysThe Peasant Girl
  113. 1913Hide and SeekMabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
  114. 1913On His Wedding DayWedding Guest
  115. 1913Her New BeauMabel
  116. 1913At Twelve O’ClockMabel
  117. 1913Near To Earth
  118. 1913The Rube and the BaronMabel
  119. 1913Love and PainMabel
  120. 1913Foiling Fickle FatherMabel