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

Mabel

Mabel's Busy Day

Pretty Girl (uncredited)

The Fatal Mallet

Mabel

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Riley and Schultze

Mabel

Caught in a Cabaret

Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl

Hello, Mabel

Mabel

Mabel's Married Life

Self (uncredited)

A Film Johnnie

Mabel

Mabel at the Wheel

Mabel, The Wife

His Trysting Places

Ambrose's Wife Mabel

Getting Acquainted

Mabel

Gentlemen of Nerve

Mabel

Her Friend the Bandit

Mabel

Mabel's Blunder

Mickey

Mickey

Mabel

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

Sue Graham

The Extra Girl

Self

Stars of Yesterday

Near To Earth

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

When Comedy Was King

Mabel

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Josephine

A Dash Through the Clouds

Diving Venus

The Water Nymph

Della, the Farmer's Daughter

Bangville Police

Mabel

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

Mabel

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Mabel

A Muddy Romance

Fatty's Wild Night

Mabel

Mabel's New Hero

Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart

The Gusher

Mabel

Cohen Saves the Flag

Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter

Hide and Seek

Mabel

A Strong Revenge

Alice

The Engagement Ring

First French Family, the Wife

Neighbors

Marcelle

The Fickle Spaniard

Jenks' Daughter

What the Doctor Ordered

Tomboy Bessie

Tomboy Bessie

The Woman

The Brave Hunter

Gladys

Oh, Those Eyes

The Heiress

The Tragedy of a Dress Suit

The Señorita

A Spanish Dilemma

Helen

Helen's Marriage

The Net Mender's rival

The Mender of Nets

The Heiress

The Baron

The Stenographer

Saved from Himself

Wild Flower

The Squaw's Love

Betty Harding

Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father

Mabel

Won in a Closet

Paddy

The Nickel-Hopper

Mabel

Mabel's Stratagem

Alice, Bob's Sweetheart

An Interrupted Elopement

Mrs. Suburbanite

Help! Help!

The Wife

The Furs

Katchem Kate

Katchem Kate

Trixie - a Tourist

The Tourists

The Revenue Man and His Girl

Mary, the Woman

The Eternal Mother

Mabel

Those Country Kids

Mabel

Wished on Mabel

Mabel

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Mabel

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

Mabel - the Wife

That Little Band Of Gold

The Little Teacher

The Little Teacher

Mabel - Fatty's Wife

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Mabel

Mabel Lost and Won

Mabel

Mabel’s Wilful Way

The Doctor's Wife

He Did and He Didn’t

Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro

What Happened To Rosa

Raggedy Rose

Raggedy Rose

The Girl Bandit

Should Men Walk Home?

Molly O'Dair

Molly O'

The Little Girl

Anything Once!

A Tale of Two Cities

Self (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

A Voice from the Deep

Mabel

The Speed Kings

Mabel - the Cashier

The Waiters' Picnic

Mabel

A Noise from the Deep

Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter

Professor Bean's Removal

The Country Boy's Sweetheart

Love and Courage

Mabel

For the Love of Mabel

Mabel

The Telltale Light

The Gypsy Queen

The Gypsy Queen

Mabel - Cohen's Daughter

The Riot

Mabel, the Kitchen Maid

Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel

The Fatal Taxicab

The Peddler's Wife

When Dreams Come True

Mabel

Fatty's Flirtation

Mabel

A Misplaced Foot

Suzanna

Suzanna

Pinto

Pinto

Kalora

The Slim Princess

Tina

Head Over Heels

Patricia O'Rourke

The Floor Below

Minnie Penelope Peck

Peck's Bad Girl

Mabel

A Perfect 36

Sis Hopkins

Sis Hopkins

Elsie MacFarland

Upstairs

Wedding Guest

On His Wedding Day

Self

Seeing Stars

Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)

The Masquerader

Mabel

The Ragtime Band

A Little Hero

(archive footage)

The Chaplin Puzzle

Self (archive footage)

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Cohen Collects a Debt

The New Neighbor

Girl

Pedro's Dilemma

Girl

The Beating He Needed

Mrs. Smith

The Flirting Husband

The Ambitious Butler

his girl

At Coney Island

Mabel

Mabel's Lovers

The Deacon's Troubles

Mabel

Mr. Fixit

A Desperate Lover

Mrs. Smith

At It Again

wife

A Temperamental Husband

Mabel

The Rivals

Bridget, His Wife

Pat's Day Off

A Healthy Neighborhood

The Girl

Fatty's Wine Party

Kitty O'Brien

The Venus Model

(archive footage)

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

Self (archive footage)

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Self (archive footage)

Looking for Mabel Normand

In Second Audience

The Making of a Man

Millie Martin

When Doctors Disagree

Stephanie Trent

Back to the Woods

Self (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Self (archive footage)

Et la femme créa Hollywood

The Daughter

Her Awakening

Herself

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

Mabel

Mabel’s Adventures

Mabel

Mabel's New Job

Undetermined Role

A Double Wedding

Maid

Wilful Peggy

Hank's Sweetheart

Hot Stuff

Miss Prue, the Stenographer

The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

Two Overcoats

Theresa Girhardi

Picciola; or, The Prison Flower

Mrs. Brown

Brown’s Séance

Donald's Fiancee

His Mother

Betty's Rival

How Betty Won the School

Mabel, Jack's Wife

When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins

Their Social Splash

The Strategy of Ann

The Jinx

Jinx

The Niece

The Diving Girl

Guest at Dinner Party

The Diamond Star

Helen

Dead Man’s Honor

Italian Blood

The City Girl

The Fatal Chocolate

Wifey

Through His Wife’s Picture

A Victim of Circumstance

The Girl

He Must Have a Wife

Betty

Betty Becomes a Maid

The Showgirl

The Unveiling

The Deacon Outwitted

The Wife

Why He Gave Up

Lizzie

For Lizzie's Sake

The Wife

The New Baby

Mabel

The Foreman of the Jury

Mabel

Father’s Choice

The Inventor’s Secret

Undetermined Secondary Role

Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

At Court (Uncredited)

When Kings Were the Law

Mabel

The Cure That Failed

Mabel

The Bowling Match

Mrs. Brown

Just Brown’s Luck

Mabel

Her New Beau

Wifey

Hubby’s Job

The Woman

The Sleuths at the Floral Parade

Mabel

Love and Pain

Uncredited / Unconfirmed

Heinze’s Resurrection

Mabel

Love Sickness at Sea

Mabel

The Hansom Driver

Mabel

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

The Peasant Girl

Those Good Old Days

Indiscretions of Betty

Over the Garden Wall

A Wife

A Family Mixup

Mabel

The Duel

Baby Day

Drummer’s Vacation

Sally Rice

A Midnight Elopement

The Innkeeper's Daughter

Oh, Mabel Behave

Mabel

The Sea Nymphs

Mabel Stebbins

My Valet

The Son's Wife

The Changing of Silas Warner

Tillie

The Doctored Affair

Mabel

Foiling Fickle Father

Love and Gasoline

Mack's Girl

The Battle of Who Run

Mabel

Mabel’s Heroes

Mabel

The Rube and the Baron

Señorita

Red Hot Romance

Mabel

Saving Mabel’s Dad

Mabel - George's Girl

The Mistaken Masher

Italian Girl

Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

Mabel

Mabel’s Bear Escape

Lovers' Post Office

Where Hazel Met the Villain

Mabel

Mabel’s Latest Prank

Arabella Flynn

Dodging a Million

Joan

Joan of Plattsburg

Jigs

The Pest

One Hour Married

Mabel

Mack at It Again

The Friend's Wife

Stolen Magic

Unconfirmed role

A Missing Bride

Mabel

Mabel’s Nerve

Mabel

Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair

Mabel

The Champion

Party Girl

His Chum the Baron

Mabel

Bright Lights

Sallie

How Hiram Won Out

A Glimpse of Los Angeles

Mabel

At Twelve O’Clock

Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer

Zuzu, the Band Leader

The Alarm

Nellie

The Speed Queen

Mabel

A Tangled Affair

Unconfimed role

A Gambling Rube

(archive footage)

Down Memory Lane

Archive Footage

All in Good Fun

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

228

Gender

Female

Birthday

1893-11-09

Place of Birth

New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA

Also Known As

Mabel Ethelreid Normand