Mabel Normand
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
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mabel
What Happened To Rosa
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
Caught in a Cabaret
Mabel
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Film Johnnie
Self (uncredited)
Mabel at the Wheel
Mabel
Mabel's Blunder
Mabel
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
Mickey
Mickey
The Extra Girl
Sue Graham
Bangville Police
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
The Fatal Mallet
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Getting Acquainted
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
Down Memory Lane
(archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
The Making of a Man
In Second Audience
The Speed Kings
Mabel
Should Men Walk Home?
The Girl Bandit
Wished on Mabel
Mabel
Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel
The Gypsy Queen
The Gypsy Queen
The Ragtime Band
Mabel
The Nickel-Hopper
Paddy
Looking for Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
Mabel's Married Life
Mabel
The Riot
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Head Over Heels
Tina
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(archive footage)
Gentlemen of Nerve
Mabel
A Voice from the Deep
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
The Chaplin Puzzle
(archive footage)
The Engagement Ring
Alice
A Noise from the Deep
Mabel
Oh, Mabel Behave
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Wilful Peggy
Maid
A Muddy Romance
Mabel
For the Love of Mabel
Mabel
The Masquerader
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Her Awakening
The Daughter
The Waiters' Picnic
Mabel - the Cashier
Seeing Stars
Self
The Mender of Nets
The Net Mender's rival
Katchem Kate
Katchem Kate
The Revenue Man and His Girl
That Little Band Of Gold
Mabel - the Wife
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Mabel
The Fatal Taxicab
Mabel
Hello, Mabel
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
His Trysting Places
Mabel, The Wife
When Doctors Disagree
Millie Martin
Her Friend the Bandit
Mabel
At Coney Island
his girl
Jinx
The Jinx
Molly O'
Molly O'Dair
The Gusher
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Mabel
Suzanna
Suzanna
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Undetermined Secondary Role
The Doctored Affair
Tillie
Drummer’s Vacation
The Battle of Who Run
Mack's Girl
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
The Deacon Outwitted
A Victim of Circumstance
Why He Gave Up
The Wife
Where Hazel Met the Villain
Stars of Yesterday
Self
Near To Earth
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Mabel
He Must Have a Wife
The Girl
Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins
Saving Mabel’s Dad
Mabel
When Kings Were the Law
At Court (Uncredited)
Mabel's New Hero
Mabel
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Mabel
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Mabel
His Chum the Baron
Party Girl
Hot Stuff
Hank's Sweetheart
The Pest
Jigs
A Midnight Elopement
Sally Rice
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
The Woman
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Italian Girl
The Diamond Star
Guest at Dinner Party
Mabel's New Job
Mabel
Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose
Stolen Magic
The Friend's Wife
The Fickle Spaniard
Marcelle
The Floor Below
Patricia O'Rourke
A Tale of Two Cities
Love and Courage
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
When Dreams Come True
The Peddler's Wife
At It Again
Mrs. Smith
The Diving Girl
The Niece
On His Wedding Day
Wedding Guest
The Inventor’s Secret
The Eternal Mother
Mary, the Woman
Helen's Marriage
Helen
For Lizzie's Sake
Lizzie
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
The Heiress
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Mabel
Mabel's Lovers
Mabel
The Ambitious Butler
The Telltale Light
Mabel
Fatty's Wild Night
The Slim Princess
Kalora
Italian Blood
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
He Did and He Didn’t
The Doctor's Wife
A Gambling Rube
Unconfimed role
The New Neighbor
What the Doctor Ordered
Jenks' Daughter
Professor Bean's Removal
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Mabel’s Adventures
Mabel
The Tourists
Trixie - a Tourist
The Unveiling
The Showgirl
Riley and Schultze
Pinto
Pinto
The Cure That Failed
Mabel
Heinze’s Resurrection
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
A Dash Through the Clouds
Josephine
Love Sickness at Sea
Mabel
The Deacon's Troubles
How Hiram Won Out
Sallie
Mabel’s Latest Prank
Mabel
Hide and Seek
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
Mabel Lost and Won
Mabel
The Beating He Needed
Girl
The Mistaken Masher
Mabel - George's Girl
Their Social Splash
Mr. Fixit
Mabel
Won in a Closet
Mabel
An Interrupted Elopement
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
Father’s Choice
Mabel
A Tangled Affair
Mabel
The Hansom Driver
Mabel
Foiling Fickle Father
Mabel
One Hour Married
Dodging a Million
Arabella Flynn
The Squaw's Love
Wild Flower
The Speed Queen
Nellie
A Little Hero
Pedro's Dilemma
Girl
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Mabel
Fatty's Flirtation
Mabel
Anything Once!
The Little Girl
Those Country Kids
Mabel
Dead Man’s Honor
Helen
Those Good Old Days
The Peasant Girl
Two Overcoats
Red Hot Romance
Señorita
The Fatal Chocolate
The City Girl
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Mabel
Oh, Those Eyes
Gladys
Through His Wife’s Picture
Wifey
The Rivals
Mabel
Her New Beau
Mabel
Saved from Himself
The Stenographer
My Valet
Mabel Stebbins
The Strategy of Ann
A Family Mixup
A Wife
The Baron
The Heiress
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Herself
Mabel’s Heroes
Mabel
A Strong Revenge
Mabel
Over the Garden Wall
Upstairs
Elsie MacFarland
The Foreman of the Jury
Mabel
Back to the Woods
Stephanie Trent
Love and Gasoline
The Water Nymph
Diving Venus
The Sea Nymphs
Mabel
A Missing Bride
Unconfirmed role
Cohen Saves the Flag
Mabel
Peck's Bad Girl
Minnie Penelope Peck
A Temperamental Husband
wife
Hubby’s Job
Wifey
The Rube and the Baron
Mabel
A Double Wedding
Undetermined Role
The Alarm
Bright Lights
Mabel
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
Cohen Collects a Debt
Just Brown’s Luck
Mrs. Brown
Joan of Plattsburg
Joan
Help! Help!
Mrs. Suburbanite
Love and Pain
Mabel
The Duel
Mabel
The Bowling Match
Mabel
A Healthy Neighborhood
The Furs
The Wife
The New Baby
The Wife
Mabel’s Nerve
Mabel
The Flirting Husband
Mrs. Smith
Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
Betty Harding
A Desperate Lover
Neighbors
First French Family, the Wife
Baby Day
Fatty's Wine Party
The Girl
A Misplaced Foot
Mabel
Tomboy Bessie
Tomboy Bessie
The Venus Model
Kitty O'Brien
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
Mabel, Jack's Wife
Indiscretions of Betty
Lovers' Post Office
Betty Becomes a Maid
Betty
Mabel's Stratagem
Mabel
Mack at It Again
Mabel
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
The Champion
Mabel
How Betty Won the School
Betty's Rival
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Mabel
A Spanish Dilemma
The Señorita
At Twelve O’Clock
Mabel
His Mother
Donald's Fiancee
A Perfect 36
Mabel
The Brave Hunter
The Woman
The Changing of Silas Warner
The Son's Wife
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Mabel
Pat's Day Off
Bridget, His Wife
Brown’s Séance
Mrs. Brown
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Theresa Girhardi