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Mabel Normand
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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…
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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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2020
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie archive footage
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2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Looking for Mabel Normand
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
The Parrott Chase
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1992
The Chaplin Puzzle
Movie (archive footage)
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1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1960
When Comedy Was King
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1955
All in Good Fun
Movie Archive Footage
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1949
Down Memory Lane
Movie (archive footage)
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1943
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Movie (archive footage)
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1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1931
Stars of Yesterday
Movie Self
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1927
One Hour Married
Movie
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1927
Should Men Walk Home?
Movie The Girl Bandit
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1927
Anything Once!
Movie The Little Girl
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1926
The Nickel-Hopper
Movie Paddy
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1926
Raggedy Rose
Movie Raggedy Rose
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1923
The Extra Girl
Movie Sue Graham
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1923
Suzanna
Movie Suzanna
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1922
Seeing Stars
Movie Self
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1922
Oh, Mabel Behave
Movie The Innkeeper's Daughter
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1922
Head Over Heels
Movie Tina
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1921
Molly O'
Movie Molly O'Dair
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1920
What Happened To Rosa
Movie Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
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1920
The Slim Princess
Movie Kalora
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1920
Pinto
Movie Pinto
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1919
Jinx
Movie The Jinx
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1919
Upstairs
Movie Elsie MacFarland
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1919
When Doctors Disagree
Movie Millie Martin
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1919
The Pest
Movie Jigs
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1919
Sis Hopkins
Movie Sis Hopkins
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1918
A Perfect 36
Movie Mabel
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1918
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Movie Italian Girl
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1918
Peck's Bad Girl
Movie Minnie Penelope Peck
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1918
Mickey
Movie Mickey
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1918
Back to the Woods
Movie Stephanie Trent
