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Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892– May 8, 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.
Birth Name
Mabel Ethelreid Normand
Born
Thursday, 10 November 1892
Died
Saturday, 22 February 1930
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté | (archive footage) | 2020 |
The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle | (archive footage) | 2005 |
City Confidential | Various Characters | 1999 |
E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
Star Power: The Creation of United Artists | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter | (archive footage) | 1992 |
Classic Comedy Teams | Mabel (segment "The Keystone Kops") | 1986 |
Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp | Actress Mentioned in Several Films | 1980 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté | (archive footage) | 2020 |
The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle | (archive footage) | 2005 |
City Confidential | Various Characters | 1999 |
E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
Star Power: The Creation of United Artists | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter | (archive footage) | 1992 |
Classic Comedy Teams | Mabel (segment "The Keystone Kops") | 1986 |
Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp | Actress Mentioned in Several Films | 1980 |
Hollywood | Actress 'Mabel and Fatty adrift' | 1980 |
The Funniest Man in the World | Self | 1967 |
Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
30 Years of Fun | (archive footage) | 1963 |
Crazy Days | Various | 1962 |
Days Of Thrills & Laughter | archive footage | 1961 |
Days of Thrills and Laughter | Self | 1961 |
Hollywood: The Golden Years | Self | 1961 |
When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage) / edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' | 1960 |
Down Memory Lane | Character in Sennett Shorts / archive footage | 1949 |
Gaslight Follies | Self | 1945 |
The Movies March On | Self - From 'Tillie's Punctured Romance') | 1939 |
Movie Memories #2 | Self | 1934 |
March of the Movies | Self - film clip | 1933 |
The Movie Album #2 | (archive footage) | 1932 |
Should Men Walk Home? | The Girl Bandit | 1927 |
Anything Once! | The Little Girl | 1927 |
The Nickel-Hopper | Paddy / Paddy, the Nickel Hopper | 1926 |
Raggedy Rose | Raggedy Rose | 1926 |
The Extra Girl | Sue Graham | 1923 |
Suzanna | Suzanna | 1923 |
Seeing Stars | Herself | 1922 |
Head Over Heels | Tina | 1922 |
Oh, Mabel Behave | The Innkeeper's Daughter | 1922 |
Molly O' | Molly O'Dair | 1921 |
What Happened to Rosa | Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro | 1920 |
The Slim Princess | Kalora | 1920 |
Pinto | Pinto | 1920 |
Jinx | The Jinx | 1919 |
Upstairs | Elsie MacFarland | 1919 |
When Doctors Disagree | Millie Martin | 1919 |
Sis Hopkins | Sis Hopkins | 1919 |
A Perfect 36 | Mabel | 1918 |
Peck's Bad Girl | Minnie Penelope Peck | 1918 |
Mickey | Mickey | 1918 |
The Venus Model | Kitty O'Brien | 1918 |
The Floor Below | Patricia O'Rourke | 1918 |
He Did and He Didn't | The Doctor's Wife | 1916 |
Fatty and Mabel Adrift | Mabel | 1916 |
Charlie's Life | Various | 1916 |
My Valet | Mabel Stebbins | 1915 |
The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher | 1915 |
Mabel Lost and Won | Mabel | 1915 |
Mabel's Wilful Way | Mabel | 1915 |
Their Social Splash | 1915 | |
Wished on Mabel | Mabel | 1915 |
That Little Band of Gold | Mabel - the Wife | 1915 |
Mabel and Fatty's Married Life | Mabel | 1915 |
Mabel, Fatty and the Law | Mabel - Fatty's Wife | 1915 |
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition | Mabel | 1915 |
Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life | Mabel | 1915 |
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day | Mabel | 1915 |
Tillie's Punctured Romance | Mabel / Mabel, the girl he left behind | 1914 |
A Fair Exchange | Ambrose's Wife / Ambrose's Wife Mabel | 1914 |
His Trysting Place | Mabel, The Wife / Mabel - the Wife | 1914 |
Gentlemen of Nerve | Mabel | 1914 |
Hello, Mabel | Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl | 1914 |
Mabel's Blunder | Mabel - the Office Girl / Mabel | 1914 |
The Masquerader | Actress Outside Studio | 1914 |
Those Country Kids | Mabel | 1914 |
Mabel's Married Life | Mabel | 1914 |
Mabel's Busy Day | Mabel | 1914 |
Her Friend the Bandit | Miss De Rock / Mabel | 1914 |
The Fatal Mallet | Mabel | 1914 |
Caught in a Cabaret | Mabel Society Girl / Mabel | 1914 |
Where Hazel Met the Villain | 1914 | |
Mabel at the Wheel | Mabel | 1914 |
A Film Johnnie | Mabel | 1914 |
Mabel's Strange Predicament | Mabel | 1914 |
Won in a Closet | Mabel | 1914 |
A Misplaced Foot | Mabel | 1914 |
Fatty's Flirtation | Mabel | 1913 |
The Gusher | Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart | 1913 |
Cohen Saves the Flag | Mabel | 1913 |
A Muddy Romance | Mabel | 1913 |
The Speed Kings | Mabel | 1913 |
When Dreams Come True | The Peddler's Wife | 1913 |
The Fatal Taxicab | Mabel | 1913 |
The Gypsy Queen | The Gypsy Queen | 1913 |
Mabel's Dramatic Career | Mabel, the Kitchen Maid | 1913 |
Mabel's New Hero | Mabel | 1913 |
The Riot | Mabel - Cohen's Daughter / Mabel - Cohen's Daughter3 | 1913 |
Professor Bean's Removal | Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter | 1913 |
Love and Courage | The Country Boy's Sweetheart | 1913 |
A Noise from the Deep | Mabel | 1913 |
The Telltale Light | Mabel | 1913 |
For the Love of Mabel | Mabel | 1913 |
The Waiters' Picnic | Mabel - the Cashier | 1913 |
Passions, He Had Three | 1913 | |
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life | Mabel | 1913 |
A Little Hero | 1913 | |
That Ragtime Band | Mabel | 1913 |
Bangville Police | Della - the Farmer's Daughter / Della, the Farmer's Daughter | 1913 |
Hide and Seek | Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter | 1913 |
On His Wedding Day | The Girl in the Park / Wedding Guest | 1913 |
A Strong Revenge | Mabel | 1913 |
Mabel's Stratagem | Mabel | 1912 |
Riley and Schultz | 1912 | |
The Water Nymph | Diving Venus | 1912 |
An Interrupted Elopement | Alice, Bob's Sweetheart | 1912 |
Tragedy of the Dress Suit | The Heiress | 1912 |
What the Doctor Ordered | Jenks' Daughter | 1912 |
The Tourists | Trixie - a Tourist | 1912 |
A Dash Through the Clouds | Josephine / Martha | 1912 |
Neighbors | First French Family, the Wife | 1912 |
Katchem Kate | Katchem Kate | 1912 |
Tomboy Bessie | Tomboy Bessie | 1912 |
Helen's Marriage | Helen | 1912 |
The Furs | The Wife | 1912 |
The Fickle Spaniard | Marcelle | 1912 |
The Brave Hunter | The Woman | 1912 |
Help! Help! | Mrs. Suburbanite | 1912 |
Oh, Those Eyes | Gladys | 1912 |
A Voice from the Deep | Minor Role | 1912 |
Hot Stuff | Hank's Sweetheart | 1912 |
A Spanish Dilemma | The Señorita | 1912 |
The Mender of Nets | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1912 |
The Eternal Mother | Mary, the Woman / Mary - the Woman | 1912 |
The Engagement Ring | Alice | 1912 |
Saved from Himself | The Stenographer | 1911 |
The Making of a Man | In Second Audience | 1911 |
The Revenue Man and the Girl | 1911 | |
The Squaw's Love | Wild Flower | 1911 |
The Baron | The Heiress | 1911 |
Troublesome Secretaries | Betty Harding | 1911 |
A Tale of Two Cities | 1911 | |
Fate's Turning | A Diner at the Hotel | 1911 |
Wilful Peggy | Maid | 1910 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Mabel Lost and Won | 1915 |
Mabel's Blunder | 1914 |
Caught in a Cabaret | 1914 |
Mabel at the Wheel | 1914 |
Mabel's Strange Predicament | 1914 |
Won in a Closet | 1914 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Mickey | 1918 |