Mabel Normand

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

132

Movies

232

Born: November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930
From: 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.

Works

232 films

The Chaplin Puzzle

199210.0

The Women Who Run Hollywood

20167.1

Caught in a Cabaret

19145.8

Riley and Schultze

1912

The Alarm

1914

Troublesome Secretaries

19114.8

The Masquerader

19145.7

Bright Lights

1916

Hello, Mabel

19145.3

Those Country Kids

19144.1

Seeing Stars

19224.9

Days of Thrills and Laughter

19616.0

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Love and Pain

1913

Tillie's Punctured Romance

19146.2

Down Memory Lane

19497.0

Sis Hopkins

19198.0

When Comedy Was King

19606.5

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files

19928.0

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

20208.0

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

19155.4

Peck's Bad Girl

1918

The Diamond Star

1911

Her Friend the Bandit

19145.3

His Mother

1911

The Water Nymph

19124.6

Looking for Mabel Normand

2015

The Ragtime Band

19134.9

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

19155.8

Baby Day

1913

The Parrott Chase

2009

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Mabel's Busy Day

19145.7

Gentlemen of Nerve

19145.8

A Film Johnnie

19145.5

The Fatal Mallet

19145.5

Fatty's Flirtation

1913

The Doctored Affair

1913

Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

1912

Mabel's Strange Predicament

19145.4

Helen's Marriage

19124.9

His Trysting Places

19146.3

Katchem Kate

19124.4

Getting Acquainted

19145.4

The Bowling Match

1913

Mabel’s Nerve

1914

Bangville Police

19135.1

Mabel’s Latest Prank

1914

Fatty's Wine Party

1914

Mabel's Blunder

19145.2

The Brave Hunter

19123.7

Mr. Fixit

1912

Over the Garden Wall

1910

The Venus Model

1918

The Slim Princess

19209.0

Lovers' Post Office

1914

A Strong Revenge

19135.0

The Extra Girl

19236.4

Heinze’s Resurrection

1913

He Did and He Didn’t

19166.0

A Missing Bride

1914

The Eternal Mother

19124.8

Back to the Woods

1918

Mickey

19186.5

Dead Man’s Honor

1911

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

19437.5

Betty Becomes a Maid

1911

Mabel at the Wheel

19145.8

Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair

1914

Mabel's Married Life

19145.9

Foiling Fickle Father

1913

That Little Band Of Gold

19155.1

The Mistaken Masher

1913

The Making of a Man

19116.3

Red Hot Romance

1913

Should Men Walk Home?

19277.2

Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

191810.0

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

199810.0

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

1913

A Dash Through the Clouds

19124.3

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

19166.0

Molly O'

19217.0

Stars of Yesterday

19319.0

The Champion

1913

The Fickle Spaniard

19123.5

The Nickel-Hopper

19267.5

A Double Wedding

1913

Saved from Himself

19113.7

Upstairs

191910.0

Near To Earth

1913

Mabel's Lovers

1912

The Gusher

19134.5

Mabel’s Adventures

19124.0

A Glimpse of Los Angeles

1914

Those Good Old Days

1913

The Sea Nymphs

1914

A Tale of Two Cities

19115.0

The Pest

19199.0

Her Awakening

1911

Hide and Seek

19136.5

The Changing of Silas Warner

1911

A Muddy Romance

19134.8

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

19154.9

Wilful Peggy

19105.0

A Noise from the Deep

19135.5

Won in a Closet

19144.4

What Happened To Rosa

19207.2

Her New Beau

1913

The Speed Kings

19134.6

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

19155.3

Jinx

191910.0

His Chum the Baron

19139.0

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

19136.0

A Spanish Dilemma

19124.0

Head Over Heels

19227.0

Wished on Mabel

19155.3

The Tragedy of a Dress Suit

19124.0

The Riot

1913

Hot Stuff

19124.2

All in Good Fun

19554.0

Where Hazel Met the Villain

191410.0

Raggedy Rose

19266.3

Joan of Plattsburg

1918

A Victim of Circumstance

1911

The Baron

19114.0

Zuzu, the Band Leader

1913

Italian Blood

1911

On His Wedding Day

19138.0

The Engagement Ring

19124.0

Oh, Mabel Behave

19229.0

When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins

1911

Mabel's New Hero

19135.1

Why He Gave Up

1911

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

19153.9

The Rivals

1912

Mabel’s Wilful Way

19154.9

Suzanna

19235.8

The Squaw's Love

19115.0

The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

1911

A Gambling Rube

1914

A Perfect 36

1918

Picciola; or, The Prison Flower

1911

The Mender of Nets

19125.8

The Revenue Man and His Girl

19114.5

Anything Once!

19276.8

Mabel's Dramatic Career

19135.6

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

19155.5

A Little Hero

19135.0

One Hour Married

19278.0

The Strategy of Ann

191110.0

When Doctors Disagree

19197.0

Mabel's New Job

1914

When Kings Were the Law

1912

Their Social Splash

19154.8

The Gypsy Queen

1913

A Desperate Lover

1912

What the Doctor Ordered

19124.0

The Floor Below

19185.3

The Waiters' Picnic

19135.0

When Dreams Come True

1913

A Voice from the Deep

19128.0

Pinto

19209.0

The Unveiling

1911

The Fatal Taxicab

1913

The Battle of Who Run

1913

Just Brown’s Luck

1913

My Valet

1915

How Betty Won the School

1911

For Lizzie's Sake

1913

Indiscretions of Betty

1910

The Beating He Needed

1912

Dodging a Million

1918

Mabel's Stratagem

19125.0

The Sleuths at the Floral Parade

1913

A Midnight Elopement

1912

The Fatal Chocolate

1912

At Twelve O’Clock

1913

He Must Have a Wife

1912

Professor Bean's Removal

1913

The Flirting Husband

1912

The Rube and the Baron

1913

An Interrupted Elopement

19124.5

Mack at It Again

1914

Love Sickness at Sea

1913

Cohen Collects a Debt

1912

Love and Gasoline

19149.0

How Hiram Won Out

1913

The Foreman of the Jury

1913

At Coney Island

19126.3

The Furs

19123.0

Mabel Lost and Won

19156.2

Help! Help!

19124.3

The Inventor’s Secret

1911

Brown’s Séance

1912

Saving Mabel’s Dad

1913

Mabel’s Bear Escape

1914

Stolen Magic

1915

A Misplaced Foot

1914

The Deacon's Troubles

1912

The Little Teacher

19155.7

Drummer’s Vacation

1912

Neighbors

19125.0

Hubby’s Job

1913

Cohen Saves the Flag

19134.2

A Temperamental Husband

1912

At It Again

1912

Mabel’s Heroes

19135.0

Father’s Choice

1913

The Hansom Driver

1913

A Tangled Affair

1913

For the Love of Mabel

1913

The Deacon Outwitted

1913

Pedro's Dilemma

1912

Love and Courage

1913

The Telltale Light

1913

Oh, Those Eyes!

19124.0

The Diving Girl

1911

Two Overcoats

191110.0

The Speed Queen

1913

The Duel

1912

The Ambitious Butler

1912

Through His Wife’s Picture

1911

The New Neighbor

1912

Pat's Day Off

1912

The New Baby

19129.0

The Cure That Failed

1913

The Tourists

19123.7

Tomboy Bessie

19124.6

A Family Mixup

1912

Fatty's Wild Night

1914

A Healthy Neighborhood

19137.0