Mabel Normand
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-11-09
Day of Death
1930-02-23 (36 years old)
Place of Birth
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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
Acting
(2016)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Looking for Mabel Normand
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1998)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)
(1992)
The Chaplin Puzzle
as (archive footage)
(1961)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
(1960)
When Comedy Was King
as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
(1955)
All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
(1949)
Down Memory Lane
as (archive footage)
(1943)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
(1942)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1931)
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
(1927)
Should Men Walk Home?
as The Girl Bandit
(1927)
Anything Once!
as The Little Girl
(1927)
(1926)
The Nickel-Hopper
as Paddy
(1926)
Raggedy Rose
as Raggedy Rose
(1923)
The Extra Girl
as Sue Graham
(1923)
Suzanna
as Suzanna
(1922)
Oh, Mabel Behave
as The Innkeeper's Daughter
(1922)
Head Over Heels
as Tina
(1922)
Seeing Stars
as Self
(1921)
Molly O'
as Molly O'Dair
(1920)
What Happened To Rosa
as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
(1920)
Pinto
as Pinto
(1920)
The Slim Princess
as Kalora
(1919)
Jinx
as The Jinx
(1919)
Upstairs
as Elsie MacFarland
(1919)
When Doctors Disagree
as Millie Martin
(1919)
The Pest
as Jigs
(1919)
Sis Hopkins
as Sis Hopkins
(1918)
Mickey
as Mickey
(1918)
The Venus Model
as Kitty O'Brien
(1918)
Back to the Woods
as Stephanie Trent
(1918)
The Floor Below
as Patricia O'Rourke
(1918)
Dodging a Million
as Arabella Flynn
(1918)
Joan of Plattsburg
as Joan
(1918)
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
as Italian Girl
(1918)
Peck's Bad Girl
as Minnie Penelope Peck
(1918)
A Perfect 36
as Mabel
(1916)
Bright Lights
as Mabel
(1916)
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
as Mabel
(1916)
He Did and He Didn’t
as The Doctor's Wife
(1915)
(1915)
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
as Mabel - Fatty's Wife
(1915)
The Little Teacher
as The Little Teacher
(1915)
That Little Band Of Gold
as Mabel - the Wife
(1915)
(1915)
Mabel’s Wilful Way
as Mabel
(1915)
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
as Mabel
(1915)
Mabel Lost and Won
as Mabel
(1915)
My Valet
as Mabel Stebbins
(1915)
Wished on Mabel
as Mabel
(1915)
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
as Mabel
(1915)
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
as Mabel
(1915)
Stolen Magic
as The Friend's Wife
(1915)
(1914)
Caught in a Cabaret
as Mabel
(1914)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Busy Day
as Mabel
(1914)
Getting Acquainted
as Ambrose's Wife Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Strange Predicament
as Mabel
(1914)
The Masquerader
as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
(1914)
A Film Johnnie
as Self (uncredited)
(1914)
Mabel at the Wheel
as Mabel
(1914)
Those Country Kids
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
as Mabel
(1914)
Fatty's Wine Party
as The Girl
(1914)
(1914)
Won in a Closet
as Mabel
(1914)
Her Friend the Bandit
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Blunder
as Mabel
(1914)
The Sea Nymphs
as Mabel
(1914)
Gentlemen of Nerve
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Married Life
as Mabel
(1914)
The Fatal Mallet
as Pretty Girl (uncredited)
(1914)
Mabel’s Latest Prank
as Mabel
(1914)
(1914)
Mabel's New Job
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel’s Nerve
as Mabel
(1914)
A Gambling Rube
as Unconfimed role
(1914)
A Misplaced Foot
as Mabel
(1914)
His Trysting Places
as Mabel, The Wife
(1914)
(1914)
(1914)
A Missing Bride
as Unconfirmed role
(1914)
Mabel’s Bear Escape
as Mabel
(1914)
Hello, Mabel
as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
(1914)
(1914)
Mack at It Again
as Mabel
(1914)
(1913)
Love and Courage
as The Country Boy's Sweetheart
(1913)
A Muddy Romance
as Mabel
(1913)
The Gusher
as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
(1913)
(1913)
The Riot
as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
(1913)
The Waiters' Picnic
as Mabel - the Cashier
(1913)
Foiling Fickle Father
as Mabel
(1913)
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
as Mabel
(1913)
Bangville Police
as Della, the Farmer's Daughter
(1913)
On His Wedding Day
as Wedding Guest
(1913)
The Gypsy Queen
as The Gypsy Queen
(1913)
The Telltale Light
as Mabel
(1913)
The Fatal Taxicab
as Mabel
(1913)
Love and Pain
as Mabel
(1913)
For the Love of Mabel
as Mabel
(1913)
A Noise from the Deep
as Mabel
(1913)
When Dreams Come True
as The Peddler's Wife
(1913)
The Foreman of the Jury
as Mabel
(1913)
Hide and Seek
as Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
(1913)
Love Sickness at Sea
as Mabel
(1913)
(1913)
The Rube and the Baron
as Mabel
(1913)
Her New Beau
as Mabel
(1913)
Professor Bean's Removal
as Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
(1913)
Mabel's New Hero
as Mabel
(1913)
Zuzu, the Band Leader
as Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
(1913)
The Speed Kings
as Mabel
(1913)
The Cure That Failed
as Mabel
(1913)
The Ragtime Band
as Mabel
(1913)
(1913)
Cohen Saves the Flag
as Mabel
(1913)
How Hiram Won Out
as Sallie
(1913)
(1913)
A Strong Revenge
as Mabel
(1913)
Those Good Old Days
as The Peasant Girl
(1913)
A Double Wedding
as Undetermined Role
(1913)
(1913)
The Mistaken Masher
as Mabel - George's Girl
(1913)
His Chum the Baron
as Party Girl
(1913)
Saving Mabel’s Dad
as Mabel
(1913)
Fatty's Flirtation
as Mabel
(1913)
Red Hot Romance
as Señorita
(1913)
The Bowling Match
as Mabel
(1913)
Father’s Choice
as Mabel
(1913)
Mabel's Dramatic Career
as Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
(1913)
A Tangled Affair
as Mabel
(1913)
The Speed Queen
as Nellie
(1913)
Mabel’s Heroes
as Mabel
(1913)
The Battle of Who Run
as Mack's Girl
(1913)
Hubby’s Job
as Wifey
(1913)
Heinze’s Resurrection
as Uncredited / Unconfirmed
(1913)
The Champion
as Mabel
(1913)
The Doctored Affair
as Tillie
(1913)
(1913)
At Twelve O’Clock
as Mabel
(1913)
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
as The Woman
(1913)
The Hansom Driver
as Mabel
(1913)
For Lizzie's Sake
as Lizzie
(1913)
Just Brown’s Luck
as Mrs. Brown
(1912)
He Must Have a Wife
as The Girl
(1912)
A Voice from the Deep
as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
(1912)
A Midnight Elopement
as Sally Rice
(1912)
(1912)
At Coney Island
as his girl
(1912)
The Mender of Nets
as The Net Mender's rival
(1912)
The Water Nymph
as Diving Venus
(1912)
A Dash Through the Clouds
as Josephine
(1912)
The Eternal Mother
as Mary, the Woman
(1912)
Help! Help!
as Mrs. Suburbanite
(1912)
A Temperamental Husband
as wife
(1912)
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
as The Heiress
(1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
as Undetermined Secondary Role
(1912)
(1912)
Mabel's Lovers
as Mabel
(1912)
The Beating He Needed
as Girl
(1912)
(1912)
At It Again
as Mrs. Smith
(1912)
Pedro's Dilemma
as Girl
(1912)
When Kings Were the Law
as At Court (Uncredited)
(1912)
An Interrupted Elopement
as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
(1912)
The Flirting Husband
as Mrs. Smith
(1912)
(1912)
The Duel
as Mabel
(1912)
The Tourists
as Trixie - a Tourist
(1912)
Mabel’s Adventures
as Mabel
(1912)
The Furs
as The Wife
(1912)
What the Doctor Ordered
as Jenks' Daughter
(1912)
(1912)
The Brave Hunter
as The Woman
(1912)
A Spanish Dilemma
as The Señorita
(1912)
Oh, Those Eyes
as Gladys
(1912)
(1912)
The Engagement Ring
as Alice
(1912)
A Family Mixup
as A Wife
(1912)
The Rivals
as Mabel
(1912)
Hot Stuff
as Hank's Sweetheart
(1912)
Brown’s Séance
as Mrs. Brown
(1912)
Mr. Fixit
as Mabel
(1912)
Mabel's Stratagem
as Mabel
(1912)
Pat's Day Off
as Bridget, His Wife
(1912)
The Fickle Spaniard
as Marcelle
(1912)
The Fatal Chocolate
as The City Girl
(1912)
Katchem Kate
as Katchem Kate
(1912)
(1912)
Tomboy Bessie
as Tomboy Bessie
(1912)
Neighbors
as First French Family, the Wife
(1912)
The New Baby
as The Wife
(1912)
Helen's Marriage
as Helen
(1911)
The Baron
as The Heiress
(1911)
Betty Becomes a Maid
as Betty
(1911)
Why He Gave Up
as The Wife
(1911)
(1911)
The Unveiling
as The Showgirl
(1911)
(1911)
The Making of a Man
as In Second Audience
(1911)
The Squaw's Love
as Wild Flower
(1911)
Her Awakening
as The Daughter
(1911)
(1911)
Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
as Betty Harding
(1911)
(1911)
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
as Miss Prue, the Stenographer
(1911)
(1911)
Saved from Himself
as The Stenographer
(1911)
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
as Mabel, Jack's Wife
(1911)
(1911)
How Betty Won the School
as Betty's Rival
(1911)
Through His Wife’s Picture
as Wifey
(1911)
(1911)
The Changing of Silas Warner
as The Son's Wife
(1911)
The Diving Girl
as The Niece
(1911)
The Diamond Star
as Guest at Dinner Party
(1911)
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
as Theresa Girhardi
(1911)
Dead Man’s Honor
as Helen
(1911)
His Mother
as Donald's Fiancee
(1910)
(1910)
Wilful Peggy
as Maid
(1910)
Crew
(1918)
Mickey
Producer
(1915)
Mabel Lost and Won
Director
(1915)
(1914)
Mabel's Busy Day
Writer, Director
(1914)
Caught in a Cabaret
Director, Writer
(1914)
Won in a Closet
Writer, Director
(1914)
Mabel's Blunder
Director, Writer
(1914)
Mabel at the Wheel
Director
(1914)
Mabel's Married Life
Writer
(1914)
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Director
(1914)
Love and Gasoline
Director
(1914)
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Director
(1914)
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Director
(1914)
Mabel’s Nerve
Director
(1912)
(1912)
The Engagement Ring
Writer