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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1893-11-09 (131 years old)

Place of Birth

New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA

Mabel Normand

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.

Known For

Acting

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

2015

Looking for Mabel Normand as Self (archive footage)

2007

1998

1992

The Chaplin Puzzle as (archive footage)

1961

Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)

1960

When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

1955

All in Good Fun as Archive Footage

1949

Down Memory Lane as (archive footage)

1943

Happy Times and Jolly Moments as (archive footage)

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)

1931

1927

Should Men Walk Home? as The Girl Bandit
Anything Once! as The Little Girl

1926

Raggedy Rose as Raggedy Rose

1923

The Extra Girl as Sue Graham
Suzanna as Suzanna

1922

Seeing Stars as Self
Oh, Mabel Behave as The Innkeeper's Daughter

1921

Molly O' as Molly O'Dair

1920

What Happened To Rosa as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
Pinto as Pinto

1919

Sis Hopkins as Sis Hopkins
Upstairs as Elsie MacFarland
When Doctors Disagree as Millie Martin
Jinx as The Jinx
The Pest as Jigs

1918

Mickey as Mickey
The Floor Below as Patricia O'Rourke
Peck's Bad Girl as Minnie Penelope Peck
A Perfect 36 as Mabel
The Venus Model as Kitty O'Brien
Back to the Woods as Stephanie Trent
Dodging a Million as Arabella Flynn

1916

He Did and He Didn’t as The Doctor's Wife
Bright Lights as Mabel

1915

Mabel, Fatty and the Law as Mabel - Fatty's Wife
The Little Teacher as The Little Teacher
That Little Band Of Gold as Mabel - the Wife
My Valet as Mabel Stebbins
Stolen Magic as The Friend's Wife

1914

The Fatal Mallet as Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Hello, Mabel as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
A Film Johnnie as Self (uncredited)
His Trysting Places as Mabel, The Wife
Getting Acquainted as Ambrose's Wife Mabel
The Masquerader as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Fatty's Wine Party as The Girl
A Missing Bride as Unconfirmed role
A Gambling Rube as Unconfimed role

1913

Bangville Police as Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Hide and Seek as Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
The Gusher as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
The Waiters' Picnic as Mabel - the Cashier
Love and Courage as The Country Boy's Sweetheart
Professor Bean's Removal as Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
The Riot as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Mabel's Dramatic Career as Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
The Gypsy Queen as The Gypsy Queen
When Dreams Come True as The Peddler's Wife
On His Wedding Day as Wedding Guest
A Double Wedding as Undetermined Role
Heinze’s Resurrection as Uncredited / Unconfirmed
Her New Beau as Mabel
Hubby’s Job as Wifey
Just Brown’s Luck as Mrs. Brown
Love and Pain as Mabel
Those Good Old Days as The Peasant Girl
The Battle of Who Run as Mack's Girl
The Mistaken Masher as Mabel - George's Girl
Red Hot Romance as Señorita
The Champion as Mabel
His Chum the Baron as Party Girl
The Speed Queen as Nellie
Zuzu, the Band Leader as Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer

1912

The Water Nymph as Diving Venus
Neighbors as First French Family, the Wife
Tomboy Bessie as Tomboy Bessie
Oh, Those Eyes as Gladys
The Brave Hunter as The Woman
A Spanish Dilemma as The Señorita
What the Doctor Ordered as Jenks' Daughter
The Mender of Nets as The Net Mender's rival
Help! Help! as Mrs. Suburbanite
An Interrupted Elopement as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
The Furs as The Wife
Katchem Kate as Katchem Kate
The Tourists as Trixie - a Tourist
The Eternal Mother as Mary, the Woman
A Voice from the Deep as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
The Flirting Husband as Mrs. Smith
At Coney Island as his girl
At It Again as Mrs. Smith
The Rivals as Mabel
Mr. Fixit as Mabel
Pat's Day Off as Bridget, His Wife
Hot Stuff as Hank's Sweetheart
Brown’s Séance as Mrs. Brown
The Fatal Chocolate as The City Girl
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore as Undetermined Secondary Role
The New Baby as The Wife
When Kings Were the Law as At Court (Uncredited)
The Duel as Mabel
A Family Mixup as A Wife
A Midnight Elopement as Sally Rice

1911

Saved from Himself as The Stenographer
The Baron as The Heiress
The Squaw's Love as Wild Flower
The Making of a Man as In Second Audience
Her Awakening as The Daughter
His Mother as Donald's Fiancee
How Betty Won the School as Betty's Rival
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag as Miss Prue, the Stenographer
The Diving Girl as The Niece
The Unveiling as The Showgirl
Why He Gave Up as The Wife
The Diamond Star as Guest at Dinner Party

1910

Wilful Peggy as Maid

Writing

Directing

Production

1918

Mickey as Producer