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.
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
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