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Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

Acting

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 Movies

Acting

Poster for Mabel's Busy Day
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Mabel's Busy Day

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Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel
Poster for Mabel's Strange Predicament
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Mabel's Strange Predicament

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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel
Poster for The Fatal Mallet
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The Fatal Mallet

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The Fatal Mallet
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Poster for Tillie's Punctured Romance
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Tillie's Punctured Romance

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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mabel
Poster for Riley and Schultze
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Riley and Schultze

Riley and Schultze
Poster for Caught in a Cabaret
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Caught in a Cabaret

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Caught in a Cabaret
Mabel
Poster for Hello, Mabel
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Hello, Mabel

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Hello, Mabel
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
Poster for A Film Johnnie
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A Film Johnnie

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A Film Johnnie
Mabel
Poster for Mabel at the Wheel
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Mabel at the Wheel

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Mabel at the Wheel
Mabel
Poster for Mabel's Married Life
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Mabel's Married Life

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Mabel's Married Life
Mabel

Production

Poster for Mabel's Busy Day
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Mabel's Busy Day

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Mabel's Busy Day
Writer
Poster for Caught in a Cabaret
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Caught in a Cabaret

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Caught in a Cabaret
Director
Poster for Caught in a Cabaret
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Caught in a Cabaret

5.7(0.1K)
Caught in a Cabaret
Writer
Poster for Won in a Closet
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Won in a Closet

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Won in a Closet
Writer
Poster for Mickey
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Mickey

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Mickey
Producer
Poster for Mabel's Blunder
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Mabel's Blunder

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Mabel's Blunder
Director
Poster for Mabel at the Wheel
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Mabel at the Wheel

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Mabel at the Wheel
Director
Poster for Mabel's Married Life
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Mabel's Married Life

5.8(0.1K)
Mabel's Married Life
Writer
Poster for Won in a Closet
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Won in a Closet

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Won in a Closet
Director
Poster for The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit

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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
Writer

Gallery

Mabel Normand portrait
Mabel Normand portrait
Mabel Normand portrait
Mabel Normand portrait
Mabel Normand portrait