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Mabel Normand

Born
November 9, 1893
Died
February 23, 1930
From Wikipedia 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.
Full Filmography
Acting
Indiscretions of Betty
(1910)
Over the Garden Wall
(1910)
Wilful Peggy
(1910)
Maid
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
(1911)
Mabel, Jack's Wife
The Strategy of Ann
(1911)
The Inventor’s Secret
(1911)
Two Overcoats
(1911)
The Revenue Man and His Girl
(1911)
His Mother
(1911)
Donald's Fiancee
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
(1911)
Theresa Girhardi
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
(1911)
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
Dead Man’s Honor
(1911)
Helen
How Betty Won the School
(1911)
Betty's Rival
The Baron
(1911)
The Heiress
Betty Becomes a Maid
(1911)
Betty
A Tale of Two Cities
(1911)
Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
(1911)
Betty Harding
The Changing of Silas Warner
(1911)
The Son's Wife
The Unveiling
(1911)
The Showgirl
Saved from Himself
(1911)
The Stenographer
Italian Blood
(1911)
The Diving Girl
(1911)
The Niece
Her Awakening
(1911)
The Daughter
The Squaw's Love
(1911)
Wild Flower
The Diamond Star
(1911)
Guest at Dinner Party
The Making of a Man
(1911)
In Second Audience
Why He Gave Up
(1911)
The Wife
A Victim of Circumstance
(1911)
Through His Wife’s Picture
(1911)
Wifey
Oh, Those Eyes
(1912)
Gladys
The Fickle Spaniard
(1912)
Marcelle
The Engagement Ring
(1912)
Alice
Tomboy Bessie
(1912)
Tomboy Bessie
Neighbors
(1912)
First French Family, the Wife
Tragedy of the Dress Suit
(1912)
The Heiress
The Brave Hunter
(1912)
The Woman
A Spanish Dilemma
(1912)
The Señorita
What the Doctor Ordered
(1912)
Jenks' Daughter
Helen's Marriage
(1912)
Helen
The Mender of Nets
(1912)
The Net Mender's rival
A Dash Through the Clouds
(1912)
Josephine
The Water Nymph
(1912)
Diving Venus
Mabel’s Adventures
(1912)
Mabel
The Rivals
(1912)
Mabel
A Family Mixup
(1912)
A Wife
Drummer’s Vacation
(1912)
Brown’s Séance
(1912)
Mrs. Brown
Hot Stuff
(1912)
Hank's Sweetheart
A Desperate Lover
(1912)
Riley and Schultze
(1912)
The Tourists
(1912)
Trixie - a Tourist
The Furs
(1912)
The Wife
An Interrupted Elopement
(1912)
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
The Eternal Mother
(1912)
Mary, the Woman
The Duel
(1912)
Mabel
Help! Help!
(1912)
Mrs. Suburbanite
Mabel's Stratagem
(1912)
Mabel
Katchem Kate
(1912)
Katchem Kate
Pat's Day Off
(1912)
Bridget, His Wife
A Temperamental Husband
(1912)
wife
A Midnight Elopement
(1912)
Sally Rice
Mr. Fixit
(1912)
Mabel
The Ambitious Butler
(1912)
When Kings Were the Law
(1912)
At Court (Uncredited)
The Flirting Husband
(1912)
Mrs. Smith
At It Again
(1912)
Mrs. Smith
The Deacon's Troubles
(1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
(1912)
Undetermined Secondary Role
Mabel's Lovers
(1912)
Mabel
The Fatal Chocolate
(1912)
The City Girl
A Voice from the Deep
(1912)
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Pedro's Dilemma
(1912)
Girl
The Beating He Needed
(1912)
Girl
Cohen Collects a Debt
(1912)
He Must Have a Wife
(1912)
The Girl
The New Baby
(1912)
The Wife
The New Neighbor
(1912)
At Coney Island
(1912)
his girl
Heinze’s Resurrection
(1913)
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
Her New Beau
(1913)
Mabel
Just Brown’s Luck
(1913)
Mrs. Brown
Love and Pain
(1913)
Love Sickness at Sea
(1913)
Mabel
When Dreams Come True
(1913)
The Peddler's Wife
The Fatal Taxicab
(1913)
Mabel
His Chum the Baron
(1913)
Party Girl
Fatty's Flirtation
(1913)
Mabel
At Twelve O’Clock
(1913)
Mabel
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
(1913)
The Woman
The Cure That Failed
(1913)
Zuzu, the Band Leader
(1913)
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
The Riot
(1913)
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Love and Courage
(1913)
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
A Noise from the Deep
(1913)
Mabel
Professor Bean's Removal
(1913)
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Mabel's Dramatic Career
(1913)
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
The Speed Kings
(1913)
Mabel
The Waiters' Picnic
(1913)
Mabel - the Cashier
For the Love of Mabel
(1913)
Mabel
The Telltale Light
(1913)
Mabel
The Gypsy Queen
(1913)
The Gypsy Queen
How Hiram Won Out
(1913)
Sallie
Saving Mabel’s Dad
(1913)
Mabel
A Little Hero
(1913)
The Ragtime Band
(1913)
Mabel
On His Wedding Day
(1913)
Wedding Guest
The Speed Queen
(1913)
Nellie
The Bowling Match
(1913)
Mabel
Hubby’s Job
(1913)
Wifey
The Hansom Driver
(1913)
Mabel
Baby Day
(1913)
Red Hot Romance
(1913)
Señorita
The Foreman of the Jury
(1913)
Mabel
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
(1913)
Mabel
A Strong Revenge
(1913)
Mabel
The Gusher
(1913)
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
Hide and Seek
(1913)
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
Cohen Saves the Flag
(1913)
Mabel
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
(1913)
Mabel
Bangville Police
(1913)
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
A Muddy Romance
(1913)
Mabel
Mabel's New Hero
(1913)
Mabel
A Tangled Affair
(1913)
Mabel
Near To Earth
(1913)
The Battle of Who Run
(1913)
Mack's Girl
Foiling Fickle Father
(1913)
Mabel
For Lizzie's Sake
(1913)
Lizzie
Mabel’s Heroes
(1913)
Mabel
The Mistaken Masher
(1913)
Mabel - George's Girl
Father’s Choice
(1913)
Mabel
The Deacon Outwitted
(1913)
The Rube and the Baron
(1913)
Mabel
The Doctored Affair
(1913)
Tillie
A Double Wedding
(1913)
Undetermined Role
Those Good Old Days
(1913)
The Peasant Girl
The Champion
(1913)
Mabel
A Healthy Neighborhood
(1913)
Passions, He Had Three
(1913)
The Masquerader
(1914)
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Mabel’s Nerve
(1914)
Mabel
Mabel’s Latest Prank
(1914)
Mabel
Mack at It Again
(1914)
Mabel
Lovers' Post Office
(1914)
A Misplaced Foot
(1914)
Mabel
Fatty's Wild Night
(1914)
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
(1914)
Mabel
A Missing Bride
(1914)
Unconfirmed role
Won in a Closet
(1914)
Mabel
Those Country Kids
(1914)
Mabel
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
(1914)
The Alarm
(1914)
Mabel's Blunder
(1914)
Mabel
Getting Acquainted
(1914)
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
His Trysting Places
(1914)
Mabel, The Wife
Her Friend the Bandit
(1914)
Mabel
Mabel at the Wheel
(1914)
Mabel
A Film Johnnie
(1914)
Self (uncredited)
Mabel's Married Life
(1914)
Mabel
Tillie's Punctured Romance
(1914)
Mabel
Mabel's Strange Predicament
(1914)
Mabel
Mabel's Busy Day
(1914)
Mabel
The Fatal Mallet
(1914)
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret
(1914)
Mabel
Gentlemen of Nerve
(1914)
Mabel
Where Hazel Met the Villain
(1914)
Mabel's New Job
(1914)
Mabel
Fatty's Wine Party
(1914)
The Girl
Hello, Mabel
(1914)
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
A Gambling Rube
(1914)
Unconfimed role
Mabel’s Bear Escape
(1914)
Mabel
The Sea Nymphs
(1914)
Mabel
Love and Gasoline
(1914)
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
(1915)
Herself
Their Social Splash
(1915)
My Valet
(1915)
Mabel Stebbins
Stolen Magic
(1915)
The Friend's Wife
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
(1915)
Mabel
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
(1915)
Mabel
The Little Teacher
(1915)
The Little Teacher
Mabel’s Wilful Way
(1915)
Mabel
Wished on Mabel
(1915)
Mabel
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
(1915)
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
That Little Band Of Gold
(1915)
Mabel - the Wife
Mabel Lost and Won
(1915)
Mabel
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
(1915)
Mabel
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
(1915)
Mabel
Bright Lights
(1916)
Mabel
He Did and He Didn’t
(1916)
The Doctor's Wife
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
(1916)
Mabel
Back to the Woods
(1918)
Stephanie Trent
The Venus Model
(1918)
Kitty O'Brien
Peck's Bad Girl
(1918)
Minnie Penelope Peck
The Floor Below
(1918)
Patricia O'Rourke
A Perfect 36
(1918)
Mabel
Joan of Plattsburg
(1918)
Joan
Mickey
(1918)
Mickey
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
(1918)
Italian Girl
Dodging a Million
(1918)
Arabella Flynn
When Doctors Disagree
(1919)
Sis Hopkins
(1919)
Sis Hopkins
Upstairs
(1919)
Elsie MacFarland
Jinx
(1919)
The Jinx
The Pest
(1919)
Jigs
The Slim Princess
(1920)
Kalora
Pinto
(1920)
Pinto
What Happened To Rosa?
(1920)
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
Molly O'
(1921)
Molly O'Dair
Oh, Mabel Behave
(1922)
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Seeing Stars
(1922)
Self
Head Over Heels
(1922)
Tina
Suzanna
(1923)
Suzanna
The Extra Girl
(1923)
Sue Graham
Raggedy Rose
(1926)
Raggedy Rose
The Nickel-Hopper
(1926)
Paddy
Anything Once!
(1927)
The Little Girl
Should Men Walk Home?
(1927)
The Girl Bandit
One Hour Married
(1927)
Stars of Yesterday
(1931)
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
(1942)
Self (archive footage)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(1943)
(archive footage)
Down Memory Lane
(1949)
(archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
(1960)
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
(1961)
Self (archive footage)
The Chaplin Puzzle
(1992)
(archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
(1998)
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Mabel Normand
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
(2016)
Herself (archive footage)
Writing
Directing
Production
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