Mabel Normand
Born November 09, 1893 (Age: 132)
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New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
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The Parrott Chase
2009
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as Herself - archival footage
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Age: 115
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 104
The Chaplin Puzzle
1992
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 98
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992
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as
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Age: 98
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
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as
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Age: 94
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
When Comedy Was King
1960
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as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
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Age: 66
All in Good Fun
1955
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as Archive Footage
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Age: 61
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 48
Stars of Yesterday
1931
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as Self
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Age: 38
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
1918
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as Italian Girl
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Age: 24
Mickey
1918
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as Mickey
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Age: 24
Back to the Woods
1918
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as Stephanie Trent
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Age: 24
Joan of Plattsburg
1918
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as Joan
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Age: 24
Dodging a Million
1918
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as Arabella Flynn
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Age: 24
Saved from Himself
1911
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as The Stenographer
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Age: 18
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Why He Gave Up
1911
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as The Wife
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Age: 18
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A Victim of Circumstance
1911
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as
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Age: 17
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Through His Wife’s Picture
1911
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as Wifey
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Age: 17
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The Inventor’s Secret
1911
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as
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Age: 17
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The Unveiling
1911
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as The Showgirl
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Age: 17
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Italian Blood
1911
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as
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Age: 17
The Making of a Man
1911
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as In Second Audience
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Age: 17
Her Awakening
1911
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as The Daughter
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Age: 17
The Revenue Man and His Girl
1911
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as
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Age: 17
The Squaw's Love
1911
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as Wild Flower
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Age: 17
The Baron
1911
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as The Heiress
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Age: 17
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How Betty Won the School
1911
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as Betty's Rival
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Age: 17
The Diving Girl
1911
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as The Niece
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Age: 17
Troublesome Secretaries
1911
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as Betty Harding
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Age: 17
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The Strategy of Ann
1911
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as
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Age: 17
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The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911
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as Miss Prue, the Stenographer
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Age: 17
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Two Overcoats
1911
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as
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Age: 17
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The Changing of Silas Warner
1911
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as The Son's Wife
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Age: 17
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Dead Man’s Honor
1911
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as Helen
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Age: 17
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When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
1911
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as Mabel, Jack's Wife
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Age: 17
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His Mother
1911
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as Donald's Fiancee
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Age: 17
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Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
1911
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as Theresa Girhardi
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Age: 17
Betty Becomes a Maid
1911
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as Betty
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Age: 17
A Tale of Two Cities
1911
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as
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Age: 17
The Diamond Star
1911
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as Guest at Dinner Party
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Age: 17