Acting
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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Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing....
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for h...
A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film.
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guest...
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar...
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuse...
Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 19...
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harla...
Millie Martin falls for falsely accused Joe Turner on a train where he is masquerading as a doctor. When Millie...
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating...
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more...
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty gir...
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay...
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dol...
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempti...
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is h...
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts t...
Helen and Tom are desperate to get married. After a foiled elopement attempt, the couple hatches a “fake weddin...
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone...
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then...
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartme...
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wh...
Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, a...
Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a joke, she is loved...
The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly pro...
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters...
The plot involves Mabel's clothes being stolen in a mix-up while she was swimming, necessitating her spending m...
Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court. When a ri...
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothie...
A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a h...
Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "friend" takes a...
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio....
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreo...
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges...
