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Biography

From Wikipedia

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.

Timeline

2020Aged 128

archive footage

2016Aged 124

Self (archive footage)

2015Aged 123

Self (archive footage)

2009Aged 117

The Parrott Chase
(archive footage) (uncredited)

2007Aged 115

Self (archive footage)

1998Aged 106

Self (archive footage)

1992Aged 100

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
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1988Aged 96

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1961Aged 69

Self (archive footage)

1960Aged 68

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1955Aged 63

Archive Footage

1949Aged 57

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1943Aged 51

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1942Aged 50

Self (archive footage)

1931Aged 39

Self

1927Aged 35

The Little Girl
The Girl Bandit
(Unknown)

1926Aged 34

Raggedy Rose
Paddy

1923Aged 31

Suzanna
Sue Graham

1922Aged 30

Tina
The Innkeeper's Daughter
Self

1921Aged 29

Molly O'Dair

1920Aged 28

Pinto
Kalora
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro

1919Aged 27

Sis Hopkins
Jigs
Millie Martin
Elsie MacFarland
The Jinx

1918Aged 26

Arabella Flynn
Joan
Patricia O'Rourke
Kitty O'Brien
Stephanie Trent
Mickey
Minnie Penelope Peck
Italian Girl
Mabel

1916Aged 24

Mabel
The Doctor's Wife
Mabel

1915Aged 23

Mabel
Mabel
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Mabel
Mabel
Mabel - the Wife
Mabel
Herself
(Unknown)
Mabel
Mabel
The Little Teacher
Mabel Stebbins
The Friend's Wife

1914Aged 22

1913Aged 21

1912Aged 20

1911Aged 19

The Diamond Star
Guest at Dinner Party
(Unknown)
Betty
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Theresa Girhardi
His Mother
Donald's Fiancee
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
Mabel, Jack's Wife
Dead Man’s Honor
Helen
The Changing of Silas Warner
The Son's Wife
Two Overcoats
(Unknown)
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
The Strategy of Ann
(Unknown)
Betty Harding
The Niece
How Betty Won the School
Betty's Rival
The Heiress
Wild Flower
(Unknown)
The Daughter
In Second Audience
Italian Blood
(Unknown)
The Unveiling
The Showgirl
The Inventor’s Secret
(Unknown)
Through His Wife’s Picture
Wifey
A Victim of Circumstance
(Unknown)
Why He Gave Up
The Wife
The Stenographer

1910Aged 18

(Unknown)
Over the Garden Wall
(Unknown)
Maid