Mabel Normand

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's Strange Predicament

5.3

Tillie's Punctured Romance

6.1

A Film Johnnie

5.4

Mabel's Married Life

5.8

The Masquerader

5.6

Caught in a Cabaret

5.6

His Trysting Places

6.1

Getting Acquainted

5.3

Gentlemen of Nerve

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The Fatal Mallet

5.4

Mabel's Busy Day

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Mabel at the Wheel

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Mabel's Blunder

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Bangville Police

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Help! Help!

4.3

Mickey

6.5

Seeing Stars

4.9

The Extra Girl

5.9

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

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Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

5.5

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

6.1

A Muddy Romance

4.8

That Little Band Of Gold

5.1

Should Men Walk Home?

7.1

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

5.9

The Mender of Nets

5.8

Mabel’s Wilful Way

4.9

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

4.9

He Did and He Didn’t

6.1

Mabel's Dramatic Career

5.5

The Women Who Run Hollywood

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Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

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Those Country Kids

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Mabel, Fatty and the Law

4.3

Her Friend the Bandit

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When Comedy Was King

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Wished on Mabel

5.2

Wilful Peggy

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The Water Nymph

4.3

Mabel's New Hero

4.9

Won in a Closet

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What Happened To Rosa

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The Speed Kings

4.2

A Little Hero

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Tomboy Bessie

4.6

The Brave Hunter

4.4

The Squaw's Love

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Katchem Kate

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The Eternal Mother

4.8

Molly O'

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

4.9

Hello, Mabel

5.3

A Dash Through the Clouds

4.3

The Gusher

4.5

Oh, Those Eyes

4.0

A Spanish Dilemma

4.0

Helen's Marriage

4.8

Saved from Himself

3.7

The Nickel-Hopper

7.0

The Furs

3.0

The Tourists

3.7

The Little Teacher

5.7

Raggedy Rose

5.5

Anything Once!

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Suzanna

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The Floor Below

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The Ragtime Band

5.2

At Coney Island

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The Making of a Man

6.3

Cohen Saves the Flag

4.2

Neighbors

5.0

The Fickle Spaniard

3.5

The Engagement Ring

4.0

Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father

4.8

An Interrupted Elopement

4.5

Mabel's Stratagem

5.0

The Revenue Man and His Girl

4.5

Mabel Lost and Won

6.2

A Tale of Two Cities

5.0

A Noise from the Deep

5.5

Days of Thrills and Laughter

5.5

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

5.5

Hot Stuff

4.2

Their Social Splash

4.8

Hide and Seek

5.0

A Strong Revenge

5.0

The Tragedy of a Dress Suit

4.0

What the Doctor Ordered

4.0

The Baron

4.0

A Voice from the Deep

7.0

The Waiters' Picnic

5.0

On His Wedding Day

8.0

Mabel’s Adventures

4.0

Mabel’s Heroes

5.0

One Hour Married

6.0

Riley and Schultze

0.0

Stars of Yesterday

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Near To Earth

0.0

Fatty's Wild Night

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

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For the Love of Mabel

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The Telltale Light

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Love and Courage

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Professor Bean's Removal

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The Riot

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The Gypsy Queen

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The Fatal Taxicab

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When Dreams Come True

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Fatty's Flirtation

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A Misplaced Foot

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Pinto

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The Slim Princess

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Head Over Heels

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Peck's Bad Girl

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A Perfect 36

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Sis Hopkins

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Upstairs

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The Chaplin Puzzle

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Cohen Collects a Debt

0.0

The New Neighbor

0.0

The Beating He Needed

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Pedro's Dilemma

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The Ambitious Butler

0.0

The Flirting Husband

0.0

Mabel's Lovers

0.0

At It Again

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The Deacon's Troubles

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A Temperamental Husband

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The Rivals

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Mr. Fixit

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A Desperate Lover

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Pat's Day Off

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A Healthy Neighborhood

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Fatty's Wine Party

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The Venus Model

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Happy Times and Jolly Moments

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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

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Looking for Mabel Normand

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When Doctors Disagree

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Back to the Woods

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Her Awakening

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Mabel's New Job

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A Double Wedding

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His Mother

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Picciola; or, The Prison Flower

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How Betty Won the School

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The Strategy of Ann

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The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

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Two Overcoats

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When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins

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Brown’s Séance

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Jinx

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Betty Becomes a Maid

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Dead Man’s Honor

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The Diving Girl

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Italian Blood

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Through His Wife’s Picture

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The Unveiling

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A Victim of Circumstance

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Why He Gave Up

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The Deacon Outwitted

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The Fatal Chocolate

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The Diamond Star

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The Inventor’s Secret

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He Must Have a Wife

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Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

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For Lizzie's Sake

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The New Baby

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Father’s Choice

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The Foreman of the Jury

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When Kings Were the Law

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The Bowling Match

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The Cure That Failed

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The Hansom Driver

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Heinze’s Resurrection

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Her New Beau

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Hubby’s Job

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Just Brown’s Luck

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Love and Pain

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Love Sickness at Sea

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The Sleuths at the Floral Parade

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Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

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Those Good Old Days

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Indiscretions of Betty

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Over the Garden Wall

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Drummer’s Vacation

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The Duel

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A Family Mixup

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A Midnight Elopement

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Baby Day

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The Sea Nymphs

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Oh, Mabel Behave

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My Valet

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The Changing of Silas Warner

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Foiling Fickle Father

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Love and Gasoline

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The Battle of Who Run

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The Doctored Affair

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The Mistaken Masher

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Red Hot Romance

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The Rube and the Baron

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Saving Mabel’s Dad

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Lovers' Post Office

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Mack at It Again

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A Missing Bride

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Where Hazel Met the Villain

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Stolen Magic

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Dodging a Million

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Joan of Plattsburg

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The Pest

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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

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Mabel’s Bear Escape

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Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair

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Mabel’s Latest Prank

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Mabel’s Nerve

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The Champion

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His Chum the Baron

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Bright Lights

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How Hiram Won Out

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The Speed Queen

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A Tangled Affair

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At Twelve O’Clock

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Zuzu, the Band Leader

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The Alarm

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A Gambling Rube

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A Glimpse of Los Angeles

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Down Memory Lane

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