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.
232 acting credits · 12 directing credits
Acting · 232
Love and Gasoline
1914
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
Those Country Kids
1914
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
Near To Earth
1913
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
Helen's Marriage
1912
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
The Pest
1919
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
Down Memory Lane
1949
A Film Johnnie
1914
A Perfect 36
1918
The Masquerader
1914
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
A Muddy Romance
1913
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Mabel's Married Life
1914
His Trysting Places
1914
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
Mickey
1918
A Strong Revenge
1913
Molly O'
1921
Anything Once!
1927
The Fatal Mallet
1914
The Extra Girl
1923
The Ragtime Band
1913
Sis Hopkins
1919
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
When Doctors Disagree
1919
Suzanna
1923
Pinto
1920
Hide and Seek
1913
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Mabel's Blunder
1914
Bangville Police
1913
The Waiters' Picnic
1913
The Speed Kings
1913
The Riot
1913
Back to the Woods
1918
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
1915
Seeing Stars
1922
Getting Acquainted
1914
Her Friend the Bandit
1914
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
1913
The Gusher
1913
The Alarm
1914
A Voice from the Deep
1912
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992
A Dash Through the Clouds
1912
The Inventor’s Secret
1911
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
1915
Head Over Heels
1922
A Misplaced Foot
1914
The Revenue Man and His Girl
1911
The Unveiling
1911
Hubby’s Job
1913
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
The Doctored Affair
1913
Wished on Mabel
1915
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
1918
The Rivals
1912
What Happened To Rosa
1920
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915
The Slim Princess
1920
The Water Nymph
1912
The Battle of Who Run
1913
He Must Have a Wife
1912
Mabel’s Latest Prank
1914
The Making of a Man
1911
The Floor Below
1918
The Mistaken Masher
1913
The Cure That Failed
1913
Oh, Mabel Behave
1922
Father’s Choice
1913
Wilful Peggy
1910
Upstairs
1919
When Comedy Was King
1960
Hello, Mabel
1914
At Twelve O’Clock
1913
The Chaplin Puzzle
1992
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
1913
Looking for Mabel Normand
2015
Over the Garden Wall
1910
The Deacon's Troubles
1912
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911
Lovers' Post Office
1914
Just Brown’s Luck
1913
A Spanish Dilemma
1912
The Champion
1913
For Lizzie's Sake
1913
Mr. Fixit
1912
Fatty's Flirtation
1913
A Victim of Circumstance
1911
The Foreman of the Jury
1913
Riley and Schultze
1912
The Parrott Chase
2009
The Rube and the Baron
1913
Through His Wife’s Picture
1911
A Noise from the Deep
1913
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912
A Gambling Rube
1914
Her New Beau
1913
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
1915
Mack at It Again
1914
An Interrupted Elopement
1912
How Betty Won the School
1911
The Flirting Husband
1912
Cohen Collects a Debt
1912
Saving Mabel’s Dad
1913
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Red Hot Romance
1913
When Kings Were the Law
1912
Oh, Those Eyes!
1912
Mabel Lost and Won
1915
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
1914
The Bowling Match
1913
The Sea Nymphs
1914
How Hiram Won Out
1913
A Family Mixup
1912
Peck's Bad Girl
1918
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
1912
Troublesome Secretaries
1911
A Tale of Two Cities
1911
The Hansom Driver
1913
Their Social Splash
1915
Should Men Walk Home?
1927
Those Good Old Days
1913
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
1916
Her Awakening
1911
Raggedy Rose
1926
Where Hazel Met the Villain
1914
Mabel's Lovers
1912
Two Overcoats
1911
The Venus Model
1918
Mabel's New Job
1914
Fatty's Wild Night
1914
The Little Teacher
1915
The Brave Hunter
1912
The Ambitious Butler
1912
The Speed Queen
1913
For the Love of Mabel
1913
Dodging a Million
1918
The Duel
1912
Joan of Plattsburg
1918
A Little Hero
1913
Stolen Magic
1915
The Strategy of Ann
1911
The Engagement Ring
1912
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
1915
Fatty's Wine Party
1914
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
1915
Won in a Closet
1914
His Chum the Baron
1913
Pat's Day Off
1912
Katchem Kate
1912
The Furs
1912
Hot Stuff
1912
Professor Bean's Removal
1913
When Dreams Come True
1913
Pedro's Dilemma
1912
At Coney Island
1912
At It Again
1912
Love and Pain
1913
My Valet
1915
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
All in Good Fun
1955
A Tangled Affair
1913
Dead Man’s Honor
1911
Why He Gave Up
1911
Cohen Saves the Flag
1913
One Hour Married
1927
A Midnight Elopement
1912
Drummer’s Vacation
1912
The Tourists
1912
Mabel’s Adventures
1912
On His Wedding Day
1913
The Nickel-Hopper
1926
He Did and He Didn’t
1916
Baby Day
1913
The Deacon Outwitted
1913
The Fatal Taxicab
1913
His Mother
1911
Mabel’s Wilful Way
1915
Bright Lights
1916
Brown’s Séance
1912
The Changing of Silas Warner
1911
Betty Becomes a Maid
1911
The Gypsy Queen
1913
The Mender of Nets
1912
The Fatal Chocolate
1912
Tomboy Bessie
1912
Love and Courage
1913
Italian Blood
1911
What the Doctor Ordered
1912
A Temperamental Husband
1912
The Baron
1911
Mabel's New Hero
1913
Stars of Yesterday
1931
The New Baby
1912
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
1913
Love Sickness at Sea
1913
The Telltale Light
1913
Zuzu, the Band Leader
1913
Jinx
1919
Heinze’s Resurrection
1913
The Diving Girl
1911
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
1911
The Diamond Star
1911
The Squaw's Love
1911
The Eternal Mother
1912
Mabel’s Heroes
1913
Mabel's Stratagem
1912
The Fickle Spaniard
1912
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
1911
Saved from Himself
1911
Indiscretions of Betty
1910
The New Neighbor
1912
A Double Wedding
1913
A Desperate Lover
1912
Help! Help!
1912
Mabel’s Bear Escape
1914
A Healthy Neighborhood
1913
The Beating He Needed
1912
Foiling Fickle Father
1913
A Missing Bride
1914
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
1914
Mabel’s Nerve
1914
Neighbors
1912
Directing · 12
Love and Gasoline
1914
Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Mabel's Blunder
1914
Mabel Lost and Won
1915
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
1914
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
1915
Won in a Closet
1914
Mabel’s Bear Escape
1914
Mabel’s Nerve
1914