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