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)
(1988)
(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)
Suzanna
as Suzanna
(1923)
The Extra Girl
as Sue Graham
(1922)
Head Over Heels
as Tina
(1922)
Oh, Mabel Behave
as The Innkeeper's Daughter
(1922)
Seeing Stars
as Self
(1921)
Molly O'
as Molly O'Dair
(1920)
Pinto
as Pinto
(1920)
What Happened To Rosa
as Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
(1920)
The Slim Princess
as Kalora
(1919)
When Doctors Disagree
as Millie Martin
(1919)
Upstairs
as Elsie MacFarland
(1919)
Jinx
as The Jinx
(1919)
The Pest
as Jigs
(1919)
Sis Hopkins
as Sis Hopkins
(1918)
Dodging a Million
as Arabella Flynn
(1918)
Joan of Plattsburg
as Joan
(1918)
Mickey
as Mickey
(1918)
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
as Italian Girl
(1918)
The Floor Below
as Patricia O'Rourke
(1918)
The Venus Model
as Kitty O'Brien
(1918)
Peck's Bad Girl
as Minnie Penelope Peck
(1918)
A Perfect 36
as Mabel
(1918)
Back to the Woods
as Stephanie Trent
(1916)
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
as Mabel
(1916)
Bright Lights
as Mabel
(1916)
He Did and He Didn’t
as The Doctor's Wife
(1915)
Mabel Lost and Won
as Mabel
(1915)
Wished on Mabel
as Mabel
(1915)
My Valet
as Mabel Stebbins
(1915)
(1915)
Mabel’s Wilful Way
as Mabel
(1915)
The Little Teacher
as The Little Teacher
(1915)
Stolen Magic
as The Friend's Wife
(1915)
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
as Mabel - Fatty's Wife
(1915)
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
as Mabel
(1915)
That Little Band Of Gold
as Mabel - the Wife
(1915)
(1915)
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
as Mabel
(1915)
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
as Mabel
(1915)
(1914)
Mabel's Married Life
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel at the Wheel
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Strange Predicament
as Mabel
(1914)
The Fatal Mallet
as Pretty Girl (uncredited)
(1914)
Mabel's Busy Day
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel’s Bear Escape
as Mabel
(1914)
A Misplaced Foot
as Mabel
(1914)
His Trysting Places
as Mabel, The Wife
(1914)
Won in a Closet
as Mabel
(1914)
(1914)
Mack at It Again
as Mabel
(1914)
The Masquerader
as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
(1914)
The Sea Nymphs
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel's Blunder
as Mabel
(1914)
(1914)
Gentlemen of Nerve
as Mabel
(1914)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Mabel
(1914)
Getting Acquainted
as Ambrose's Wife Mabel
(1914)
Mabel’s Latest Prank
as Mabel
(1914)
Her Friend the Bandit
as Mabel
(1914)
A Film Johnnie
as Mabel
(1914)
(1914)
A Missing Bride
as Unconfirmed role
(1914)
Caught in a Cabaret
as Mabel
(1914)
Those Country Kids
as Mabel
(1914)
Hello, Mabel
as Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
(1914)
(1914)
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
as Mabel
(1914)
A Gambling Rube
as Unconfimed role
(1914)
(1914)
(1914)
Fatty's Wine Party
as The Girl
(1914)
Mabel's New Job
as Mabel
(1914)
Mabel’s Nerve
as Mabel
(1913)
The Fatal Taxicab
as Mabel
(1913)
The Rube and the Baron
as Mabel
(1913)
Bangville Police
as Della, the Farmer's Daughter
(1913)
A Noise from the Deep
as Mabel
(1913)
Mabel’s Heroes
as Mabel
(1913)
Saving Mabel’s Dad
as Mabel
(1913)
Cohen Saves the Flag
as Mabel
(1913)
The Waiters' Picnic
as Mabel - the Cashier
(1913)
How Hiram Won Out
as Sallie
(1913)
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
as Mabel
(1913)
Love Sickness at Sea
as Mabel
(1913)
A Tangled Affair
as Mabel
(1913)
The Gusher
as Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
(1913)
When Dreams Come True
as The Peddler's Wife
(1913)
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
as The Woman
(1913)
A Muddy Romance
as Mabel
(1913)
The Telltale Light
as Mabel
(1913)
(1913)
For the Love of Mabel
as Mabel
(1913)
The Gypsy Queen
as The Gypsy Queen
(1913)
The Speed Kings
as Mabel
(1913)
The Battle of Who Run
as Mack's Girl
(1913)
The Ragtime Band
as Mabel
(1913)
Heinze’s Resurrection
as Uncredited / Unconfirmed
(1913)
The Mistaken Masher
as Mabel - George's Girl
(1913)
The Hansom Driver
as Mabel
(1913)
A Strong Revenge
as Mabel
(1913)
Those Good Old Days
as The Peasant Girl
(1913)
Professor Bean's Removal
as Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
(1913)
Just Brown’s Luck
as Mrs. Brown
(1913)
For Lizzie's Sake
as Lizzie
(1913)
The Riot
as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
(1913)
On His Wedding Day
as Wedding Guest
(1913)
Hide and Seek
as Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
(1913)
The Cure That Failed
as Mabel
(1913)
(1913)
Zuzu, the Band Leader
as Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
(1913)
Mabel's New Hero
as Mabel
(1913)
Love and Courage
as The Country Boy's Sweetheart
(1913)
(1913)
At Twelve O’Clock
as Mabel
(1913)
(1913)
A Double Wedding
as Undetermined Role
(1913)
The Bowling Match
as Mabel
(1913)
His Chum the Baron
as Party Girl
(1913)
(1913)
Fatty's Flirtation
as Mabel
(1913)
The Foreman of the Jury
as Mabel
(1913)
The Speed Queen
as Nellie
(1913)
The Doctored Affair
as Tillie
(1913)
Father’s Choice
as Mabel
(1913)
Red Hot Romance
as Señorita
(1913)
Love and Pain
as Mabel
(1913)
Her New Beau
as Mabel
(1913)
Foiling Fickle Father
as Mabel
(1913)
Mabel's Dramatic Career
as Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
(1913)
The Champion
as Mabel
(1913)
Hubby’s Job
as Wifey
(1913)
(1912)
(1912)
A Midnight Elopement
as Sally Rice
(1912)
(1912)
At Coney Island
as his girl
(1912)
An Interrupted Elopement
as Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
(1912)
The New Baby
as The Wife
(1912)
The Rivals
as Mabel
(1912)
The Engagement Ring
as Alice
(1912)
The Mender of Nets
as The Net Mender's rival
(1912)
Mabel’s Adventures
as Mabel
(1912)
A Spanish Dilemma
as The Señorita
(1912)
The Fatal Chocolate
as The City Girl
(1912)
The Tourists
as Trixie - a Tourist
(1912)
Help! Help!
as Mrs. Suburbanite
(1912)
The Water Nymph
as Diving Venus
(1912)
Pedro's Dilemma
as Girl
(1912)
A Temperamental Husband
as wife
(1912)
Neighbors
as First French Family, the Wife
(1912)
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
as The Heiress
(1912)
Tomboy Bessie
as Tomboy Bessie
(1912)
The Furs
as The Wife
(1912)
At It Again
as Mrs. Smith
(1912)
A Dash Through the Clouds
as Josephine
(1912)
The Eternal Mother
as Mary, the Woman
(1912)
The Beating He Needed
as Girl
(1912)
Oh, Those Eyes
as Gladys
(1912)
Mabel's Lovers
as Mabel
(1912)
The Brave Hunter
as The Woman
(1912)
Mabel's Stratagem
as Mabel
(1912)
(1912)
The Fickle Spaniard
as Marcelle
(1912)
(1912)
(1912)
What the Doctor Ordered
as Jenks' Daughter
(1912)
Pat's Day Off
as Bridget, His Wife
(1912)
The Flirting Husband
as Mrs. Smith
(1912)
Hot Stuff
as Hank's Sweetheart
(1912)
Katchem Kate
as Katchem Kate
(1912)
Mr. Fixit
as Mabel
(1912)
Helen's Marriage
as Helen
(1912)
(1912)
A Family Mixup
as A Wife
(1912)
When Kings Were the Law
as At Court (Uncredited)
(1912)
(1912)
He Must Have a Wife
as The Girl
(1912)
Brown’s Séance
as Mrs. Brown
(1912)
A Voice from the Deep
as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
(1912)
The Duel
as Mabel
(1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
as Undetermined Secondary Role
(1911)
(1911)
(1911)
How Betty Won the School
as Betty's Rival
(1911)
(1911)
The Squaw's Love
as Wild Flower
(1911)
(1911)
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
as Miss Prue, the Stenographer
(1911)
The Making of a Man
as In Second Audience
(1911)
The Diving Girl
as The Niece
(1911)
Her Awakening
as The Daughter
(1911)
Through His Wife’s Picture
as Wifey
(1911)
(1911)
Why He Gave Up
as The Wife
(1911)
(1911)
The Baron
as The Heiress
(1911)
(1911)
His Mother
as Donald's Fiancee
(1911)
Dead Man’s Honor
as Helen
(1911)
The Changing of Silas Warner
as The Son's Wife
(1911)
Betty Becomes a Maid
as Betty
(1911)
Saved from Himself
as The Stenographer
(1911)
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
as Mabel, Jack's Wife
(1911)
The Unveiling
as The Showgirl
(1911)
Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
as Betty Harding
(1911)
The Diamond Star
as Guest at Dinner Party
(1911)
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
as Theresa Girhardi
(1910)
Wilful Peggy
as Maid
(1910)
(1910)
Crew
(1918)
Mickey
Producer
(1915)
Mabel Lost and Won
Director
(1915)
(1914)
Mabel's Busy Day
Writer, Director
(1914)
Caught in a Cabaret
Writer, Director
(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 Stormy Love Affair
Director
(1914)
Mabel’s Nerve
Director
(1914)
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Director
(1912)
(1912)
The Engagement Ring
Writer