Mabel Normand

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1893-11-09

Deathday 1930-02-23 (36 years old)

Place of Birth New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA

Also Known As Mabel Ethelreid Normand, Mabel Normand-Cody, Muriel Fortescue, メーベル・ノーマンド

Mabel Normand

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.

Known For

Actor

2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Looking for Mabel Normand

as Self (archive footage)

1998
1992
The Chaplin Puzzle

as (archive footage)

1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter

as Self (archive footage)

1960
When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

1949
Down Memory Lane

as (archive footage)

1943
Happy Times and Jolly Moments

as (archive footage)

1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)

1931
1927
Should Men Walk Home?

as The Girl Bandit

1927
Anything Once!

as The Little Girl

1926
1926
Raggedy Rose

as Raggedy Rose

1923
The Extra Girl

as Sue Graham

1923
Suzanna

as Suzanna

1922
Seeing Stars

as Self

1922
Oh, Mabel Behave

as The Innkeeper's Daughter

1922
1921
Molly O'

as Molly O'Dair

1920
What Happened To Rosa?

as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro

1920
1920
Pinto

as Pinto

1919
Jinx

as The Jinx

1919
Upstairs

as Elsie MacFarland

1919
When Doctors Disagree

as Millie Martin

1919
The Pest

as Jigs

1919
Sis Hopkins

as Sis Hopkins

1918
A Perfect 36

as Mabel

1918
Peck's Bad Girl

as Minnie Penelope Peck

1918
Mickey

as Mickey

1918
Back to the Woods

as Stephanie Trent

1918
The Venus Model

as Kitty O'Brien

1918
The Floor Below

as Patricia O'Rourke

1918
1918
Dodging a Million

as Arabella Flynn

1916
Bright Lights

as Mabel

1916
He Did and He Didn’t

as The Doctor's Wife

1915
Stolen Magic

as The Friend's Wife

1915
My Valet

as Mabel Stebbins

1915
The Little Teacher

as The Little Teacher

1915
1915
1915
That Little Band Of Gold

as Mabel - the Wife

1915
Mabel, Fatty and the Law

as Mabel - Fatty's Wife

1914
Getting Acquainted

as Ambrose's Wife Mabel

1914
1914
Fatty's Wine Party

as The Girl

1914
His Trysting Places

as Mabel, The Wife

1914
1914
Hello, Mabel

as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl

1914
1914
The Masquerader

as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)

1914
1914
1914
A Missing Bride

as Unconfirmed role

1914
A Gambling Rube

as Unconfimed role

1914
1914
The Fatal Mallet

as Pretty Girl (uncredited)

1914
1914
1914
1914
1914
A Film Johnnie

as Self (uncredited)

1914
1914
1913
The Champion

as Mabel

1913
Zuzu, the Band Leader

as Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer

1913
1913
The Gusher

as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart

1913
1913
1913
1913
When Dreams Come True

as The Peddler's Wife

1913
1913
The Gypsy Queen

as The Gypsy Queen

1913
Mabel's Dramatic Career

as Mabel, the Kitchen Maid

1913
1913
The Riot

as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter

1913
Professor Bean's Removal

as Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter

1913
Love and Courage

as The Country Boy's Sweetheart

1913
1913
The Waiters' Picnic

as Mabel - the Cashier

1913
The Speed Queen

as Nellie

1913
1913
Hubby’s Job

as Wifey

1913
1913
His Chum the Baron

as Party Girl

1913
Bangville Police

as Della, the Farmer's Daughter

1913
1913
Those Good Old Days

as The Peasant Girl

1913
Hide and Seek

as Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter

1913
On His Wedding Day

as Wedding Guest

1913
Her New Beau

as Mabel

1913
1913
1913
1913
Red Hot Romance

as Señorita

1913
1913
Heinze’s Resurrection

as Uncredited / Unconfirmed

1913
1913
The Battle of Who Run

as Mack's Girl

1913
Just Brown’s Luck

as Mrs. Brown

1913
The Mistaken Masher

as Mabel - George's Girl

1913
1913
1913
A Double Wedding

as Undetermined Role

1912
The Duel

as Mabel

1912
1912
A Family Mixup

as A Wife

1912
A Midnight Elopement

as Sally Rice

1912
Pat's Day Off

as Bridget, His Wife

1912
Brown’s Séance

as Mrs. Brown

1912
The Rivals

as Mabel

1912
Mr. Fixit

as Mabel

1912
1912
At It Again

as Mrs. Smith

1912
At Coney Island

as his girl

1912
The Flirting Husband

as Mrs. Smith

1912
1912
The Water Nymph

as Diving Venus

1912
1912
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

as Undetermined Secondary Role

1912
1912
An Interrupted Elopement

as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart

1912
What the Doctor Ordered

as Jenks' Daughter

1912
The Tourists

as Trixie - a Tourist

1912
1912
The New Baby

as The Wife

1912
Neighbors

as First French Family, the Wife

1912
Katchem Kate

as Katchem Kate

1912
Tomboy Bessie

as Tomboy Bessie

1912
1912
When Kings Were the Law

as At Court (Uncredited)

1912
The Furs

as The Wife

1912
1912
The Brave Hunter

as The Woman

1912
Help! Help!

as Mrs. Suburbanite

1912
Oh, Those Eyes

as Gladys

1912
A Voice from the Deep

as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

1912
Hot Stuff

as Hank's Sweetheart

1912
1912
A Spanish Dilemma

as The Señorita

1912
The Fatal Chocolate

as The City Girl

1912
The Mender of Nets

as The Net Mender's rival

1912
The Eternal Mother

as Mary, the Woman

1911
Saved from Himself

as The Stenographer

1911
Why He Gave Up

as The Wife

1911
The Unveiling

as The Showgirl

1911
The Making of a Man

as In Second Audience

1911
Her Awakening

as The Daughter

1911
The Squaw's Love

as Wild Flower

1911
The Baron

as The Heiress

1911
How Betty Won the School

as Betty's Rival

1911
The Diving Girl

as The Niece

1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

as Miss Prue, the Stenographer

1911
1911
1911
His Mother

as Donald's Fiancee

1911
1911
The Diamond Star

as Guest at Dinner Party

1910
Wilful Peggy

as Maid

Director

1915
Mabel Lost and Won

as Director

1914
1914
Mabel's Blunder

as Director

1914
Mabel at the Wheel

as Director

1914
Won in a Closet

as Director

1914
Love and Gasoline

as Director

1914
1914
Mabel’s Nerve

as Director

Writer

1914
1914
1914
Won in a Closet

as Writer

1914
1914
Mabel's Blunder

as Writer

1912

Producer

1918
Mickey

as Producer