Mabel Normand
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.
Known for
Acting232
movieCharlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
archive footage
movieThe Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
Self (archive footage)
movieLooking for Mabel Normand
2015
Self (archive footage)
The Parrott Chase
2009
(archive footage) (uncredited)
movieWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Self (archive footage)
movieStar Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Chaplin Puzzle
1992
(archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992
(archive footage) (uncredited)
movieHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
(archive footage) (uncredited)
movieDays of Thrills and Laughter
1961
Self (archive footage)
movieWhen Comedy Was King
1960
(archive footage) (uncredited)
movieAll in Good Fun
1955
Archive Footage
movieDown Memory Lane
1949
(archive footage)
movieHappy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
(archive footage)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Self (archive footage)
movieShould Men Walk Home?
1927
The Girl Bandit
movieAnything Once!
1927
The Little Girl
movieRaggedy Rose
1926
Raggedy Rose
movieThe Extra Girl
1923
Sue Graham
movieSuzanna
1923
Suzanna
movieOh, Mabel Behave
1922
The Innkeeper's Daughter
movieMolly O'
1921
Molly O'Dair
movieWhat Happened To Rosa
1920
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
moviePinto
1920
Pinto
movieJinx
1919
The Jinx
movieUpstairs
1919
Elsie MacFarland
movieWhen Doctors Disagree
1919
Millie Martin
movieSis Hopkins
1919
Sis Hopkins
movieStake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
1918
Italian Girl
moviePeck's Bad Girl
1918
Minnie Penelope Peck
movieMickey
1918
Mickey
movieBack to the Woods
1918
Stephanie Trent
movieThe Venus Model
1918
Kitty O'Brien
movieThe Floor Below
1918
Patricia O'Rourke
movieDodging a Million
1918
Arabella Flynn
movieHe Did and He Didn’t
1916
The Doctor's Wife
movieStolen Magic
1915
The Friend's Wife
movieMy Valet
1915
Mabel Stebbins
movieThe Little Teacher
1915
The Little Teacher
movieThat Little Band Of Gold
1915
Mabel - the Wife
movieMabel, Fatty and the Law
1915
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
movieGetting Acquainted
1914
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
movieHis Trysting Places
1914
Mabel, The Wife
movieHello, Mabel
1914
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
movieThe Masquerader
1914
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
A Missing Bride
1914
Unconfirmed role
A Gambling Rube
1914
Unconfimed role
movieThe Fatal Mallet
1914
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Zuzu, the Band Leader
1913
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
movieThe Gusher
1913
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
When Dreams Come True
1913
The Peddler's Wife
movieThe Gypsy Queen
1913
The Gypsy Queen
movieMabel's Dramatic Career
1913
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
movieThe Riot
1913
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Professor Bean's Removal
1913
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Love and Courage
1913
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
movieThe Waiters' Picnic
1913
Mabel - the Cashier
movieBangville Police
1913
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Those Good Old Days
1913
The Peasant Girl
movieHide and Seek
1913
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
movieOn His Wedding Day
1913
Wedding Guest
Heinze’s Resurrection
1913
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
movieThe Mistaken Masher
1913
Mabel - George's Girl
A Double Wedding
1913
Undetermined Role
moviePat's Day Off
1912
Bridget, His Wife
Brown’s Séance
1912
Mrs. Brown
At It Again
1912
Mrs. Smith
movieAt Coney Island
1912
The Girl
movieThe Water Nymph
1912
Diving Venus
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912
Undetermined Secondary Role
movieThe Tragedy of a Dress Suit
1912
The Heiress
movieAn Interrupted Elopement
1912
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
movieWhat the Doctor Ordered
1912
Jenks' Daughter
movieThe Tourists
1912
Trixie - a Tourist
movieA Dash Through the Clouds
1912
Josephine
movieNeighbors
1912
First French Family, the Wife
movieKatchem Kate
1912
Katchem Kate
movieTomboy Bessie
1912
Tomboy Bessie
When Kings Were the Law
1912
At Court (Uncredited)
movieThe Furs
1912
The Wife
movieThe Fickle Spaniard
1912
Marcelle
movieThe Brave Hunter
1912
The Woman
movieHelp! Help!
1912
Mrs. Suburbanite
movieOh, Those Eyes!
1912
Gladys
A Voice from the Deep
1912
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
movieHot Stuff
1912
Hank's Sweetheart
movieA Spanish Dilemma
1912
The Señorita
The Fatal Chocolate
1912
The City Girl
movieThe Mender of Nets
1912
The Net Mender's rival
movieThe Eternal Mother
1912
Mary, the Woman
movieSaved from Himself
1911
The Stenographer
The Unveiling
1911
The Showgirl
movieThe Making of a Man
1911
In Second Audience
movieHer Awakening
1911
The Daughter
movieThe Squaw's Love
1911
Wild Flower
movieThe Baron
1911
The Heiress
movieThe Diving Girl
1911
The Niece
movieTroublesome Secretaries
1911
Betty Harding
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
1911
Mabel, Jack's Wife
His Mother
1911
Donald's Fiancee
The Diamond Star
1911
Guest at Dinner Party
Directing12
movieMabel Lost and Won
1915
Director
movieMabel's Blunder
1914
Director
movieMabel's Busy Day
1914
Director
movieCaught in a Cabaret
1914
Director
movieMabel at the Wheel
1914
Director
movieWon in a Closet
1914
Director
Writing7
Production1
movieMickey
1918
Producer