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Mabel Normand
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New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — archive footage2020
- The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2016
- Looking for Mabel Normand — Self (archive footage)2015
- The Parrott Chase — (archive footage) (uncredited)2009
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists — Self (archive footage)1998
- The Chaplin Puzzle — (archive footage)1992
- Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files — (archive footage) (uncredited)1992
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)1988
- Days of Thrills and Laughter — Self (archive footage)1961
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Key facts
- Born
- Amabel Ethelreid Normand , ( 1893-11-09 ) November 9, 1893, New Brighton , New York , U.S.
- Died
- February 23, 1930 (1930-02-23) (aged 36), Monrovia , California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles
- Other names
- Mabel Normand-Cody Muriel Fortescue
- Occupations
- Actress director screenwriter comedian
- Years active
- 1910–1927
- Spouse
- Lew Cody ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mabel
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Staten Island
- Place of death
- Monrovia
- Spouse
- Lew Cody
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Mabel Normand - Mishkin 1918.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mabel Normand
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1895-11-09
- date of death
- 1930-02-22
- place of burial
- Calvary Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Mabel Normand
- start of work period
- 1910-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Mabel Normand
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Encyclopedic overview
Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 — February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man.
Normand's name was repeatedly linked with gun violence, including the 1922 murder of her friend, director William Desmond Taylor, and the non-fatal 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines by Normand's chauffeur, Joe Kelly. After police interrogation, she was ruled out as a suspect in Taylor's murder.
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