
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
140 Credits
Seeing Stars
as Self
1922

The Masquerader
as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
1914

Hot Stuff
as Hank's Sweetheart
1912

Sis Hopkins
as Sis Hopkins
1919

Katchem Kate
as Katchem Kate
1912

Hello, Mabel
as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
1914

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007

Helen's Marriage
as Helen
1912

Troublesome Secretaries
as Betty Harding
1911

Mabel at the Wheel
as Mabel
1914

The Alarm
1914

Caught in a Cabaret
as Mabel
1914
Behind the Camera
12 Credits
Mabel at the Wheel
Director
1914

Caught in a Cabaret
Writer, Director
1914

Mabel's Blunder
Director, Writer
1914

Mickey
Producer
1918

Mabel's Married Life
Writer
1914

Mabel's Busy Day
Writer, Director
1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament
Director
1914

The Engagement Ring
Writer
1912

Mabel Lost and Won
Director
1915

Won in a Closet
Writer, Director
1914

The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
Writer
1912

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Director
1915