Mabel Normand
Acting • Born 1893-11-09 – Died 1930-02-23
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.
Filmography
232 credits
Mabel's Busy Day
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Movie • 1914
Mabel
The Fatal Mallet
Movie • 1914
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Riley and Schultze
Movie • 1912
Caught in a Cabaret
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Hello, Mabel
Movie • 1914
Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
A Film Johnnie
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel at the Wheel
Movie • 1914
Mabel
His Trysting Places
Movie • 1914
Mabel, The Wife
Getting Acquainted
Movie • 1914
Ambrose's Wife Mabel
Gentlemen of Nerve
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel's Married Life
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Movie • 1915
Mabel
Her Friend the Bandit
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mickey
Movie • 1918
Mickey
The Extra Girl
Movie • 1923
Sue Graham
Mabel's Blunder
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Stars of Yesterday
Movie • 1931
Self
Near To Earth
Movie • 1913
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Movie • 1916
Mabel
When Comedy Was King
Movie • 1960
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
A Dash Through the Clouds
Movie • 1912
Josephine
The Water Nymph
Movie • 1912
Diving Venus
Bangville Police
Movie • 1913
Della, the Farmer's Daughter
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Movie • 1915
Mabel
A Muddy Romance
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Fatty's Wild Night
Movie • 1914
Mabel's New Hero
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Gusher
Movie • 1913
Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
Cohen Saves the Flag
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Hide and Seek
Movie • 1913
Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
A Strong Revenge
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Neighbors
Movie • 1912
First French Family, the Wife
The Fickle Spaniard
Movie • 1912
Marcelle
The Engagement Ring
Movie • 1912
Alice
Tomboy Bessie
Movie • 1912
Tomboy Bessie
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
Movie • 1912
The Heiress
The Brave Hunter
Movie • 1912
The Woman
A Spanish Dilemma
Movie • 1912
The Señorita
Helen's Marriage
Movie • 1912
Helen
What the Doctor Ordered
Movie • 1912
Jenks' Daughter
Oh, Those Eyes!
Movie • 1912
Gladys
The Mender of Nets
Movie • 1912
The Net Mender's rival
The Baron
Movie • 1911
The Heiress
The Squaw's Love
Movie • 1911
Wild Flower
Saved from Himself
Movie • 1911
The Stenographer
Troublesome Secretaries
Movie • 1911
Betty Harding
Won in a Closet
Movie • 1914
Mabel
The Nickel-Hopper
Movie • 1926
Paddy
An Interrupted Elopement
Movie • 1912
Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
Help! Help!
Movie • 1912
Mrs. Suburbanite
The Furs
Movie • 1912
The Wife
Mabel's Stratagem
Movie • 1912
Mabel
Katchem Kate
Movie • 1912
Katchem Kate
The Tourists
Movie • 1912
Trixie - a Tourist
The Revenue Man and His Girl
Movie • 1911
The Eternal Mother
Movie • 1912
Mary, the Woman
Those Country Kids
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel Lost and Won
Movie • 1915
Mabel
Wished on Mabel
Movie • 1915
Mabel
The Little Teacher
Movie • 1915
The Little Teacher
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Movie • 1915
Mabel - Fatty's Wife
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Movie • 1915
Mabel
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Movie • 1915
Mabel
That Little Band Of Gold
Movie • 1915
Mabel - the Wife
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Movie • 1915
Mabel
He Did and He Didn’t
Movie • 1916
The Doctor's Wife
What Happened To Rosa
Movie • 1920
Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
Raggedy Rose
Movie • 1926
Raggedy Rose
Molly O'
Movie • 1921
Molly O'Dair
Should Men Walk Home?
Movie • 1927
The Girl Bandit
Anything Once!
Movie • 1927
The Little Girl
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1911
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie • 1942
Self (archive footage)
A Voice from the Deep
Movie • 1912
Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
The Waiters' Picnic
Movie • 1913
Mabel - the Cashier
The Speed Kings
Movie • 1913
Mabel
For the Love of Mabel
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Professor Bean's Removal
Movie • 1913
Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
The Telltale Light
Movie • 1913
Mabel
A Noise from the Deep
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Love and Courage
Movie • 1913
The Country Boy's Sweetheart
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Movie • 1913
Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
The Riot
Movie • 1913
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
The Fatal Taxicab
Movie • 1913
Mabel
When Dreams Come True
Movie • 1913
The Peddler's Wife
The Gypsy Queen
Movie • 1913
The Gypsy Queen
Fatty's Flirtation
Movie • 1913
Mabel
A Misplaced Foot
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Suzanna
Movie • 1923
Suzanna
Pinto
Movie • 1920
Pinto
The Slim Princess
Movie • 1920
Kalora
Head Over Heels
Movie • 1922
Tina
The Floor Below
Movie • 1918
Patricia O'Rourke
Peck's Bad Girl
Movie • 1918
Minnie Penelope Peck
A Perfect 36
Movie • 1918
Mabel
Sis Hopkins
Movie • 1919
Sis Hopkins
Upstairs
Movie • 1919
Elsie MacFarland
On His Wedding Day
Movie • 1913
Wedding Guest
Seeing Stars
Movie • 1922
Self
The Masquerader
Movie • 1914
Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
The Ragtime Band
Movie • 1913
Mabel
A Little Hero
Movie • 1913
The Chaplin Puzzle
Movie • 1992
(archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie • 1961
Self (archive footage)
Cohen Collects a Debt
Movie • 1912
The New Neighbor
Movie • 1912
The Beating He Needed
Movie • 1912
Girl
Pedro's Dilemma
Movie • 1912
Girl
The Ambitious Butler
Movie • 1912
The Flirting Husband
Movie • 1912
Mrs. Smith
Mabel's Lovers
Movie • 1912
Mabel
A Desperate Lover
Movie • 1912
At It Again
Movie • 1912
Mrs. Smith
The Rivals
Movie • 1912
Mabel
A Temperamental Husband
Movie • 1912
wife
Mr. Fixit
Movie • 1912
Mabel
The Deacon's Troubles
Movie • 1912
At Coney Island
Movie • 1912
The Girl
Pat's Day Off
Movie • 1912
Bridget, His Wife
A Healthy Neighborhood
Movie • 1913
Fatty's Wine Party
Movie • 1914
The Girl
The Venus Model
Movie • 1918
Kitty O'Brien
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Movie • 1943
(archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Mabel Normand
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Man
Movie • 1911
In Second Audience
When Doctors Disagree
Movie • 1919
Millie Martin
Back to the Woods
Movie • 1918
Stephanie Trent
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Her Awakening
Movie • 1911
The Daughter
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Movie • 1915
Herself
Mabel’s Adventures
Movie • 1912
Mabel
Mabel's New Job
Movie • 1914
Mabel
A Double Wedding
Movie • 1913
Undetermined Role
Hot Stuff
Movie • 1912
Hank's Sweetheart
Wilful Peggy
Movie • 1910
Maid
Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Movie • 1911
Theresa Girhardi
When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
Movie • 1911
Mabel, Jack's Wife
Brown’s Séance
Movie • 1912
Mrs. Brown
Their Social Splash
Movie • 1915
The Strategy of Ann
Movie • 1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Movie • 1911
Miss Prue, the Stenographer
His Mother
Movie • 1911
Donald's Fiancee
How Betty Won the School
Movie • 1911
Betty's Rival
Two Overcoats
Movie • 1911
Jinx
Movie • 1919
The Jinx
Betty Becomes a Maid
Movie • 1911
Betty
The Diving Girl
Movie • 1911
The Niece
Dead Man’s Honor
Movie • 1911
Helen
The Deacon Outwitted
Movie • 1913
The Unveiling
Movie • 1911
The Showgirl
Why He Gave Up
Movie • 1911
The Wife
Italian Blood
Movie • 1911
Through His Wife’s Picture
Movie • 1911
Wifey
A Victim of Circumstance
Movie • 1911
The Foreman of the Jury
Movie • 1913
Mabel
For Lizzie's Sake
Movie • 1913
Lizzie
He Must Have a Wife
Movie • 1912
The Girl
The Diamond Star
Movie • 1911
Guest at Dinner Party
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Movie • 1912
Undetermined Secondary Role
The Inventor’s Secret
Movie • 1911
The Bowling Match
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Fatal Chocolate
Movie • 1912
The City Girl
The New Baby
Movie • 1912
The Wife
When Kings Were the Law
Movie • 1912
At Court (Uncredited)
Father’s Choice
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Cure That Failed
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Her New Beau
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Hubby’s Job
Movie • 1913
Wifey
Heinze’s Resurrection
Movie • 1913
Uncredited / Unconfirmed
The Hansom Driver
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Just Brown’s Luck
Movie • 1913
Mrs. Brown
Love Sickness at Sea
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Love and Pain
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
Movie • 1913
The Woman
Those Good Old Days
Movie • 1913
The Peasant Girl
Indiscretions of Betty
Movie • 1910
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Over the Garden Wall
Movie • 1910
Drummer’s Vacation
Movie • 1912
A Family Mixup
Movie • 1912
A Wife
The Duel
Movie • 1912
Mabel
Baby Day
Movie • 1913
A Midnight Elopement
Movie • 1912
Sally Rice
Oh, Mabel Behave
Movie • 1922
The Innkeeper's Daughter
The Sea Nymphs
Movie • 1914
Mabel
My Valet
Movie • 1915
Mabel Stebbins
The Changing of Silas Warner
Movie • 1911
The Son's Wife
The Battle of Who Run
Movie • 1913
Mack's Girl
Foiling Fickle Father
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Love and Gasoline
Movie • 1914
The Doctored Affair
Movie • 1913
Tillie
The Mistaken Masher
Movie • 1913
Mabel - George's Girl
Mabel’s Heroes
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Red Hot Romance
Movie • 1913
Señorita
Saving Mabel’s Dad
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Rube and the Baron
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Mabel’s Bear Escape
Movie • 1914
Mabel
The Pest
Movie • 1919
Jigs
One Hour Married
Movie • 1927
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mabel’s Latest Prank
Movie • 1914
Mabel
A Missing Bride
Movie • 1914
Unconfirmed role
Mabel’s Nerve
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Mack at It Again
Movie • 1914
Mabel
Stolen Magic
Movie • 1915
The Friend's Wife
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Movie • 1918
Italian Girl
Dodging a Million
Movie • 1918
Arabella Flynn
Joan of Plattsburg
Movie • 1918
Joan
Where Hazel Met the Villain
Movie • 1914
Lovers' Post Office
Movie • 1914
His Chum the Baron
Movie • 1913
Party Girl
The Champion
Movie • 1913
Mabel
Bright Lights
Movie • 1916
Mabel
How Hiram Won Out
Movie • 1913
Sallie
A Tangled Affair
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Speed Queen
Movie • 1913
Nellie
At Twelve O’Clock
Movie • 1913
Mabel
The Alarm
Movie • 1914
A Gambling Rube
Movie • 1914
Unconfimed role
A Glimpse of Los Angeles
Movie • 1914
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Movie • 1913
Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
Down Memory Lane
Movie • 1949
(archive footage)
All in Good Fun
Movie • 1955
Archive Footage
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie • 1988
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Movie • 1992
The Parrott Chase
Movie • 2009
Herself - archival footage
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie • 2020
archive footage