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…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914) — Mabel
2. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) — Mabel
3. A Film Johnnie (1914) — Mabel
4. Mabel's Married Life (1914) — Mabel
5. The Masquerader (1914) — Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
6. Caught in a Cabaret (1914) — Mabel
7. His Trysting Places (1914) — Mabel, The Wife
8. The Fatal Mallet (1914) — Pretty Girl (uncredited)
9. Gentlemen of Nerve (1914) — Mabel
10. Getting Acquainted (1914) — Ambrose's Wife Mabel
11. Mabel at the Wheel (1914) — Mabel
12. Mabel's Busy Day (1914) — Mabel
13. Mabel's Blunder (1914) — Mabel
14. Bangville Police (1913) — Della, the Farmer's Daughter
15. The Extra Girl (1923) — Sue Graham
16. Mickey (1918) — Mickey
17. Help! Help! (1912) — Mrs. Suburbanite
18. Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913) — Mabel
19. Seeing Stars (1922) — Self
20. Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915) — Mabel
21. Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020) — archive footage
22. When Comedy Was King (1960) — (archive footage) (uncredited)
23. Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) — Mabel
24. Should Men Walk Home? (1927) — The Girl Bandit
25. Her Friend the Bandit (1914) — Mabel
26. A Muddy Romance (1913) — Mabel
27. That Little Band Of Gold (1915) — Mabel - the Wife
28. He Did and He Didn’t (1916) — The Doctor's Wife
29. Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915) — Mabel
30. Those Country Kids (1914) — Mabel
31. Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915) — Mabel - Fatty's Wife
32. Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life (1915) — Mabel
33. Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913) — Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
34. Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915) — Mabel
35. The Mender of Nets (1912) — The Net Mender's rival
36. Wished on Mabel (1915) — Mabel
37. Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915) — Mabel
38. The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016) — Self (archive footage)
39. The Water Nymph (1912) — Diving Venus
40. The Speed Kings (1913) — Mabel

Directed

1. Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914) — Director
2. Caught in a Cabaret (1914) — Director
3. Mabel at the Wheel (1914) — Director
4. Mabel's Busy Day (1914) — Director
5. Mabel's Blunder (1914) — Director
6. Won in a Closet (1914) — Director
7. Mabel Lost and Won (1915) — Director
8. Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915) — Director
9. Love and Gasoline (1914) — Director
10. Mabel’s Bear Escape (1914) — Director
11. Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair (1914) — Director
12. Mabel’s Nerve (1914) — Director