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.
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
The Parrott Chase
Herself - archival footage
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
The Chaplin Puzzle
(archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
Down Memory Lane
(archive footage)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Stars of Yesterday
Self
One Hour Married
Should Men Walk Home?
The Girl Bandit
Anything Once!
The Little Girl
The Nickel-Hopper
Paddy
Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose
The Extra Girl
Sue Graham
Suzanna
Suzanna
Seeing Stars
Self
Oh, Mabel Behave
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Head Over Heels
Tina
Molly O'
Molly O'Dair
What Happened To Rosa
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
The Slim Princess
Kalora
Pinto
Pinto
Jinx
The Jinx
Upstairs
Elsie MacFarland
When Doctors Disagree
Millie Martin
The Pest
Jigs
Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins
A Perfect 36
Mabel
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Italian Girl
Peck's Bad Girl
Minnie Penelope Peck
Mickey
Mickey
Back to the Woods
Stephanie Trent
The Venus Model
Kitty O'Brien
The Floor Below
Patricia O'Rourke
Joan of Plattsburg
Joan
Dodging a Million
Arabella Flynn
Bright Lights
Mabel
He Did and He Didn’t
The Doctor's Wife
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Mabel
Stolen Magic
The Friend's Wife
My Valet
Mabel Stebbins
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
Mabel Lost and Won
Mabel
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Mabel
Their Social Splash
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Herself
Wished on Mabel
Mabel
That Little Band Of Gold
Mabel - the Wife
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Mabel
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Mabel
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Mabel
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Mabel
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mabel
Getting Acquainted
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
The Sea Nymphs
Mabel
Fatty's Wine Party
The Girl
His Trysting Places
Mabel, The Wife
Lovers' Post Office
Gentlemen of Nerve
Mabel
Hello, Mabel
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
Mabel's Blunder
Mabel
Mabel’s Latest Prank
Mabel
The Masquerader
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
Those Country Kids
Mabel
Mabel's New Job
Mabel
Mabel's Married Life
Mabel
A Missing Bride
Unconfirmed role
A Gambling Rube
Unconfimed role
Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel
Her Friend the Bandit
Mabel
The Fatal Mallet
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
The Alarm
Mabel’s Nerve
Mabel
Caught in a Cabaret
Mabel
Where Hazel Met the Villain
Mabel at the Wheel
Mabel
Mack at It Again
Mabel
A Film Johnnie
Mabel
Love and Gasoline
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Mabel
Won in a Closet
Mabel
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Mabel
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
A Misplaced Foot
Mabel
Fatty's Wild Night
The Champion
Mabel
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
Fatty's Flirtation
Mabel
The Gusher
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
Cohen Saves the Flag
Mabel
A Muddy Romance
Mabel
Love Sickness at Sea
Mabel
The Speed Kings
Mabel
A Healthy Neighborhood
The Bowling Match
Mabel
When Dreams Come True
The Peddler's Wife
The Fatal Taxicab
Mabel
The Gypsy Queen
The Gypsy Queen
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
Mabel's New Hero
Mabel
Baby Day
The Riot
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Professor Bean's Removal
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
Love and Courage
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
A Noise from the Deep
Mabel
The Telltale Light
Mabel
For the Love of Mabel
Mabel
The Waiters' Picnic
Mabel - the Cashier
The Speed Queen
Nellie
The Hansom Driver
Mabel
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Mabel
The Foreman of the Jury
Mabel
Hubby’s Job
Wifey
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Mabel
A Little Hero
The Ragtime Band
Mabel
His Chum the Baron
Party Girl
Bangville Police
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Father’s Choice
Mabel
Those Good Old Days
The Peasant Girl
Hide and Seek
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
Her New Beau
Mabel
On His Wedding Day
Wedding Guest
At Twelve O’Clock
Mabel
The Rube and the Baron
Mabel
Near To Earth
Love and Pain
Mabel
Foiling Fickle Father
Mabel
A Strong Revenge
Mabel
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
The Woman
Red Hot Romance
Señorita
The Doctored Affair
Tillie
A Tangled Affair
Mabel
Heinze’s Resurrection
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
Mabel’s Heroes
Mabel
The Battle of Who Run
Mack's Girl
Just Brown’s Luck
Mrs. Brown
The Mistaken Masher
Mabel - George's Girl
The Deacon Outwitted
For Lizzie's Sake
Lizzie
How Hiram Won Out
Sallie
The Cure That Failed
Mabel
Saving Mabel’s Dad
Mabel
A Double Wedding
Undetermined Role
The Duel
Mabel
Mabel's Stratagem
Mabel
Drummer’s Vacation
Mabel’s Adventures
Mabel
A Midnight Elopement
Sally Rice
A Family Mixup
A Wife
Brown’s Séance
Mrs. Brown
Pat's Day Off
Bridget, His Wife
A Desperate Lover
Mr. Fixit
Mabel
The Rivals
Mabel
The Deacon's Troubles
A Temperamental Husband
wife
At It Again
Mrs. Smith
Mabel's Lovers
Mabel
At Coney Island
The Girl
The Flirting Husband
Mrs. Smith
The Ambitious Butler
Pedro's Dilemma
Girl
The Beating He Needed
Girl
The New Neighbor
Riley and Schultze
Cohen Collects a Debt
The Water Nymph
Diving Venus
He Must Have a Wife
The Girl
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Undetermined Secondary Role
An Interrupted Elopement
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
The Heiress
The Tourists
Trixie - a Tourist
What the Doctor Ordered
Jenks' Daughter
The New Baby
The Wife
A Dash Through the Clouds
Josephine
Katchem Kate
Katchem Kate
Neighbors
First French Family, the Wife
Tomboy Bessie
Tomboy Bessie
Helen's Marriage
Helen
When Kings Were the Law
At Court (Uncredited)
The Furs
The Wife
The Fickle Spaniard
Marcelle
The Brave Hunter
The Woman
Help! Help!
Mrs. Suburbanite
Oh, Those Eyes!
Gladys
Hot Stuff
Hank's Sweetheart
A Voice from the Deep
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
A Spanish Dilemma
The Señorita
The Engagement Ring
Alice
The Fatal Chocolate
The City Girl
The Mender of Nets
The Net Mender's rival
The Eternal Mother
Mary, the Woman
Saved from Himself
The Stenographer
Why He Gave Up
The Wife
A Victim of Circumstance
The Inventor’s Secret
Through His Wife’s Picture
Wifey
The Unveiling
The Showgirl
Italian Blood
The Making of a Man
In Second Audience
Her Awakening
The Daughter
The Revenue Man and His Girl
The Squaw's Love
Wild Flower
The Baron
The Heiress
How Betty Won the School
Betty's Rival
The Diving Girl
The Niece
Troublesome Secretaries
Betty Harding
The Strategy of Ann
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
Two Overcoats
The Changing of Silas Warner
The Son's Wife
Dead Man’s Honor
Helen
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
Mabel, Jack's Wife
His Mother
Donald's Fiancee
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Theresa Girhardi
Betty Becomes a Maid
Betty
The Diamond Star
Guest at Dinner Party
A Tale of Two Cities
Wilful Peggy
Maid
Over the Garden Wall
Indiscretions of Betty