Mabel Normand

Born: 1893-11-09 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA

Died: 1930-02-23

Known For: 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

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

2015

Looking for Mabel Normand as Self (archive footage)

2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)

1998

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Self (archive footage)

1992

The Chaplin Puzzle as (archive footage)

1988

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1961

Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)

1960

When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

1955

All in Good Fun as Archive Footage

1949

Down Memory Lane as (archive footage)

1926

Raggedy Rose as Raggedy Rose
The Nickel-Hopper as Paddy

1923

Suzanna as Suzanna
The Extra Girl as Sue Graham

1922

Seeing Stars as Self
Head Over Heels as Tina
Oh, Mabel Behave as The Innkeeper's Daughter

1921

Molly O' as Molly O'Dair

1920

Pinto as Pinto
The Slim Princess as Kalora
What Happened To Rosa as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro

1919

Upstairs as Elsie MacFarland
Jinx as The Jinx
Sis Hopkins as Sis Hopkins
When Doctors Disagree as Millie Martin
The Pest as Jigs

1918

Mickey as Mickey
Dodging a Million as Arabella Flynn
The Floor Below as Patricia O'Rourke
Joan of Plattsburg as Joan
Peck's Bad Girl as Minnie Penelope Peck
Back to the Woods as Stephanie Trent
The Venus Model as Kitty O'Brien
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand as Italian Girl
A Perfect 36 as Mabel

1916

Fatty and Mabel Adrift as Mabel
Bright Lights as Mabel
He Did and He Didn’t as The Doctor's Wife

1915

Mabel’s Wilful Way as Mabel
Wished on Mabel as Mabel
That Little Band Of Gold as Mabel - the Wife
Their Social Splash
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life as Mabel
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition as Mabel
Mabel, Fatty and the Law as Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day as Mabel
My Valet as Mabel Stebbins
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life as Mabel
The Little Teacher as The Little Teacher
Mabel Lost and Won as Mabel
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco as Herself
Stolen Magic as The Friend's Wife

1914

The Masquerader as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Getting Acquainted as Ambrose's Wife Mabel
Mabel's Blunder as Mabel
Tillie's Punctured Romance as Mabel
Gentlemen of Nerve as Mabel
Mabel at the Wheel as Mabel
Mabel's Busy Day as Mabel
Caught in a Cabaret as Mabel
Mabel's Strange Predicament as Mabel
His Trysting Places as Mabel, The Wife
A Film Johnnie as Mabel
Those Country Kids as Mabel
The Alarm
Where Hazel Met the Villain
Mabel's Married Life as Mabel
The Fatal Mallet as Pretty Girl (uncredited)
A Gambling Rube as Unconfimed role
Her Friend the Bandit as Mabel
Hello, Mabel as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
A Misplaced Foot as Mabel
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
Lovers' Post Office
Mack at It Again as Mabel
Fatty's Wine Party as The Girl
Mabel’s Bear Escape as Mabel
Mabel’s Latest Prank as Mabel
Mabel’s Nerve as Mabel
A Missing Bride as Unconfirmed role
Fatty's Wild Night
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair as Mabel
The Sea Nymphs as Mabel
Love and Gasoline
Won in a Closet as Mabel
Mabel's New Job as Mabel

1913

Bangville Police as Della, the Farmer's Daughter
The Gusher as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
The Riot as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Near To Earth
The Champion as Mabel
His Chum the Baron as Party Girl
A Muddy Romance as Mabel
The Speed Kings as Mabel
On His Wedding Day as Wedding Guest
Mabel's New Hero as Mabel
The Bowling Match as Mabel
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes as Mabel
Zuzu, the Band Leader as Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
A Noise from the Deep as Mabel
Love and Pain as Mabel
A Strong Revenge as Mabel
Foiling Fickle Father as Mabel
Professor Bean's Removal as Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Father’s Choice as Mabel
Love and Courage as The Country Boy's Sweetheart
The Telltale Light as Mabel
Heinze’s Resurrection as Uncredited / Unconfirmed
When Dreams Come True as The Peddler's Wife
The Speed Queen as Nellie
Baby Day
Fatty's Flirtation as Mabel
Red Hot Romance as Señorita
The Battle of Who Run as Mack's Girl
The Ragtime Band as Mabel
Hide and Seek as Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
The Gypsy Queen as The Gypsy Queen
The Waiters' Picnic as Mabel - the Cashier
Her New Beau as Mabel
The Mistaken Masher as Mabel - George's Girl
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life as Mabel
A Healthy Neighborhood
Mabel’s Heroes as Mabel
The Doctored Affair as Tillie
Love Sickness at Sea as Mabel
A Double Wedding as Undetermined Role
How Hiram Won Out as Sallie
A Little Hero
Those Good Old Days as The Peasant Girl
Mabel's Dramatic Career as Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
At Twelve O’Clock as Mabel
For the Love of Mabel as Mabel
Hubby’s Job as Wifey
The Fatal Taxicab as Mabel
The Rube and the Baron as Mabel
The Cure That Failed as Mabel
A Tangled Affair as Mabel
Just Brown’s Luck as Mrs. Brown
Saving Mabel’s Dad as Mabel
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade as The Woman
The Foreman of the Jury as Mabel
The Deacon Outwitted
For Lizzie's Sake as Lizzie
The Hansom Driver as Mabel
Cohen Saves the Flag as Mabel

1912

At Coney Island as The Girl
The Mender of Nets as The Net Mender's rival
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit as The Heiress
Hot Stuff as Hank's Sweetheart
The Engagement Ring as Alice
The Rivals as Mabel
The Eternal Mother as Mary, the Woman
A Temperamental Husband as wife
The Furs as The Wife
Katchem Kate as Katchem Kate
The Beating He Needed as Girl
When Kings Were the Law as At Court (Uncredited)
Tomboy Bessie as Tomboy Bessie
Mr. Fixit as Mabel
The Tourists as Trixie - a Tourist
Neighbors as First French Family, the Wife
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore as Undetermined Secondary Role
A Dash Through the Clouds as Josephine
Mabel’s Adventures as Mabel
He Must Have a Wife as The Girl
Cohen Collects a Debt
At It Again as Mrs. Smith
The Deacon's Troubles
Mabel's Lovers as Mabel
Brown’s Séance as Mrs. Brown
The Brave Hunter as The Woman
Riley and Schultze
The Flirting Husband as Mrs. Smith
The Fickle Spaniard as Marcelle
A Spanish Dilemma as The Señorita
The New Neighbor
What the Doctor Ordered as Jenks' Daughter
Helen's Marriage as Helen
Pedro's Dilemma as Girl
A Desperate Lover
Oh, Those Eyes as Gladys
Pat's Day Off as Bridget, His Wife
Mabel's Stratagem as Mabel
The Water Nymph as Diving Venus
Drummer’s Vacation
The Fatal Chocolate as The City Girl
An Interrupted Elopement as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
The Duel as Mabel
A Voice from the Deep as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
A Family Mixup as A Wife
A Midnight Elopement as Sally Rice
Help! Help! as Mrs. Suburbanite
The Ambitious Butler
The New Baby as The Wife

1911

Italian Blood
The Squaw's Love as Wild Flower
His Mother as Donald's Fiancee
A Tale of Two Cities
The Making of a Man as In Second Audience
Why He Gave Up as The Wife
Through His Wife’s Picture as Wifey
Her Awakening as The Daughter
Saved from Himself as The Stenographer
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins as Mabel, Jack's Wife
Dead Man’s Honor as Helen
The Baron as The Heiress
The Changing of Silas Warner as The Son's Wife
Betty Becomes a Maid as Betty
The Diamond Star as Guest at Dinner Party
The Diving Girl as The Niece
Troublesome Secretaries as Betty Harding
The Strategy of Ann
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower as Theresa Girhardi
The Unveiling as The Showgirl
A Victim of Circumstance
The Inventor’s Secret
Two Overcoats
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag as Miss Prue, the Stenographer
How Betty Won the School as Betty's Rival
The Revenue Man and His Girl