Mabel Normand
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.
Mabel's Strange Predicament
as MabelA tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel,...
Movie pageCaught in a Cabaret
as MabelCharlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He...
Movie pageTillie's Punctured Romance
as MabelA womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...
Movie pageMabel at the Wheel
as MabelA villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides...
Movie pageThe Masquerader
as Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly...
Movie pageA Film Johnnie
as Self (uncredited)The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a...
Movie pageGetting Acquainted
as Ambrose's Wife MabelCharlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is...
Movie pageMabel's Busy Day
as MabelMabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down...
Movie pageHer Friend the Bandit
as MabelA comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom...
Movie pageMabel's Married Life
as MabelMabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband...
Movie pageThe Fatal Mallet
as Pretty Girl (uncredited)Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.
Movie pageHis Trysting Places
as Mabel, The WifeOn his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman...
Movie pageA Tale of Two Cities
as uncreditedA condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and...
Movie pageGentlemen of Nerve
as MabelMabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's...
Movie pageMabel's Blunder
as MabelMabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of...
Movie pageThe Baron
as The HeiressA Mack Sennett comedy short for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The...
Movie pageBangville Police
as Della, the Farmer's DaughterA young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re...
Movie pageThe Extra Girl
as Sue GrahamSue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when...
Movie pageThe Venus Model
as Kitty O'BrienA young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial...
Movie pageA Muddy Romance
as MabelTwo rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them...
Movie pageThe Nickel-Hopper
as PaddyDance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a...
Movie pageHappy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Movie pageA Noise from the Deep
as MabelMabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young...
Movie pageHelp! Help!
as Mrs. SuburbaniteA send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND...
Movie pageMolly O'
as Molly O'DairAn Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors,...
Movie pageThe Making of a Man
as In Second AudienceA young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She...
Movie pageMabel Lost and Won
as MabelMabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess....
Movie pageMabel and Fatty's Wash Day
as MabelA henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
Movie pageSeeing Stars
as SelfFirst National gala celebrity banquet with stars.
Movie pageWished on Mabel
as MabelMabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
Movie pageThe Slim Princess
as KaloraKalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her...
Movie pageHello, Mabel
as Mabel - the 'Hello' GirlHello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed...
Movie pageThe Alarm
as uncreditedA Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost.
Movie pageBarney Oldfield's Race for a Life
as MabelWhen Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her...
Movie pageRaggedy Rose
as Raggedy RoseRose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
Movie pageMabel's Dramatic Career
as Mabel, the Kitchen MaidA young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects...
Movie pageWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was,...
Movie pageThe Speed Kings
as MabelRace-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
Movie pageStar Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are...
Movie pageThe Gypsy Queen
as The Gypsy QueenThe Gypsy Queen is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
Movie pageWhat Happened To Rosa?
as Mayme Ladd / Rosa AlvaroA fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish...
Movie pageShould Men Walk Home?
as The Girl BanditMabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male...
Movie pageScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...
Movie pageMickey
as MickeyMickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live...
Movie pageFatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
as MabelFatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to...
Movie pageNear To Earth
as uncreditedThis is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger...
Movie pageFatty and Mabel Adrift
as MabelVillains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
Movie pageThe Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who...
Movie pageA Perfect 36
as MabelThe plot involves Mabel's clothes being stolen in a mix-up while she was swimming, necessitating...
Movie pageTheir Social Splash
as uncreditedPretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked...
Movie pageHe Did and He Didn’t
as The Doctor's WifeA doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting...
Movie pageDays of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century...
Movie pageThe Riot
as Mabel - Cohen's DaughterWhen a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a...
Movie pageWhen Comedy Was King
as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles...
Movie pageThe Tourists
as Trixie - a TouristA group of tourists spend too long checking out the Indian Arts and Crafts at the station and...
Movie pageMabel and Fatty’s Married Life
as MabelWhen a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid...
Movie pageMabel’s Wilful Way
as MabelMabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of...
Movie pageHot Stuff
as Hank's SweetheartHank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides...
Movie pageThe Gusher
as Oil Well Buyer's SweetheartMabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown...
Movie pageThe Furs
as The WifeMabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along...
Movie pageMabel's New Hero
as MabelFatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway...
Movie pageThe Brave Hunter
as The WomanHere it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover....
Movie pageThe Floor Below
as Patricia O'RourkePatricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers...
Movie pageThe Engagement Ring
as AliceAlice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich...
Movie pageMabel, Fatty and the Law
as Mabel - Fatty's WifeWhen Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of...
Movie pageJinx
as The JinxThe circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus...
Movie pageDown Memory Lane
as (archive footage)This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett...
Movie pageOh, Those Eyes
as GladysSeemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man...
Movie pageOne Hour Married
as uncreditedA newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
Movie pageThat Little Band Of Gold
as Mabel - the WifeA happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their...
Movie pageThe Fatal Taxicab
as MabelThe Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
Movie pageFatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
as MabelFatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Movie pageHead Over Heels
as TinaWhen theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his...
Movie pageMabel's Lovers
as MabelAt a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather...
Movie pageWhen Doctors Disagree
as Millie MartinMillie Martin falls for falsely accused Joe Turner on a train where he is masquerading as a...
Movie pageThose Country Kids
as MabelThose Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and...
Movie pageThe Mender of Nets
as The Net Mender's rivalA young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an...
Movie pageThe Little Teacher
as The Little TeacherThe new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she...
Movie pageJoan of Plattsburg
as JoanJoan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at...
Movie pageThe Water Nymph
as Diving VenusMabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.
Movie pagePinto
as PintoWhen Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the...
Movie pageThe Chaplin Puzzle
as (archive footage)This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay....
Movie pageWilful Peggy
as MaidPeggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a...
Movie pageThe Waiters' Picnic
as Mabel - the CashierLouis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The...
Movie pageHer Awakening
as The DaughterAn attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an...
Movie pageA Little Hero
as uncreditedMabel has a canary bird, a tiny pet dog and a cat. She goes out, and the cat goes after the...
Movie pageThe Pest
as JigsNaive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge....
Movie pageUpstairs
as Elsie MacFarlandWhile working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks...
Movie pageWon in a Closet
as MabelMoving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet,...
Movie pageThe Diving Girl
as The NieceWith her uncle she visits the seashore and goes bathing with a party of her brother's friends....
Movie pageNeighbors
as First French Family, the WifeA Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Fred Mace & Mabel Normand.
Movie pageHelen's Marriage
as HelenThe movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon...
Movie pageBack to the Woods
as Stephanie TrentDaughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to...
Movie pageTomboy Bessie
as Tomboy BessieIn this one, Mabel Normand plays the title role, a wild child who keeps tormenting people and...
Movie pageStake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
as Italian GirlThe Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty...
Movie pageThe New Neighbor
as uncreditedWhen a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands;...
Movie pageAt Coney Island
as his girlMack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out...
Movie pageA Dash Through the Clouds
as JosephineAviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of...
Movie pageSis Hopkins
as Sis HopkinsSis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a...
Movie pageTroublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
as Betty HardingThis is basically a two practical-joke comedy. Bunny is a businessman father and Mabel plays...
Movie pageCohen Saves the Flag
as MabelCohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg...
Movie pageFor the Love of Mabel
as MabelA presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
Movie pagePat's Day Off
as Bridget, His WifeAfter an argument with his wife in which nosy neighbors and police intervene, Pat feigns suicide...
Movie pageAn Interrupted Elopement
as Alice, Bob's SweetheartThis is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again,...
Movie pageMabel's Stratagem
as MabelFred Mace plays a businessman with two secretaries. He gets playful with the second secretary,...
Movie pageLooking for Mabel Normand
as Self (archive footage)A documentary on the life and career of silent film star Mabel Normand.
Movie pageThe Diamond Star
as Guest at Dinner PartyWhen John Wilson comes home drunk, his marriage collapses, and he agrees to live separately from...
Movie pageThe Eternal Mother
as Mary, the WomanJohn and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the...
Movie pagePeck's Bad Girl
as Minnie Penelope PeckMinnie Penelope Peck, the village scamp of Yaptank, accompanies her father to the bank to demand...
Movie pageA Strong Revenge
as MabelCobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance...
Movie pageThe Tragedy of a Dress Suit
as The HeiressA Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
Movie pageThe Squaw's Love
as Wild FlowerWild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is...
Movie pageIndiscretions of Betty
as uncreditedMabel Normand first starring role is a familiar story of a woman living beyond her means.
Movie pageAnything Once!
as The Little GirlANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and...
Movie pageSuzanna
as SuzannaHoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their...
Movie pageCohen Collects a Debt
as uncreditedAfter second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was...
Movie pageKatchem Kate
as Katchem KateMabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention...
Movie pageThe Revenue Man and His Girl
as uncreditedIn the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still;...
Movie pageBright Lights
as MabelThe manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set...
Movie pageOn His Wedding Day
as Wedding GuestWhen some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks...
Movie pageWhat the Doctor Ordered
as Jenks' DaughterA Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.
Movie pageHide and Seek
as Mabel Brown - the Boss's DaughterA banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the...
Movie pageMabel’s Adventures
as MabelMabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take...
Movie pageMabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
as HerselfFrequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915...
Movie pageOh, Mabel Behave
as The Innkeeper's DaughterSquire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem...
Movie pageRiley and Schultze
as uncreditedA constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to...
Movie pageMy Valet
as Mabel StebbinsThe parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he...
Movie pageDodging a Million
as Arabella FlynnMabel plays Arabella Flynn, a shop girl who mistakenly thinks she is an heiress. She gets in a...
Movie pageThe Fickle Spaniard
as MarcelleA Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Mabel Normand & Fred Mace.
Movie pageStolen Magic
as The Friend's WifeA Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand
Movie pageSaved from Himself
as The StenographerJoseph Graybill, learning that his friends have been making a lot of money in the stock market,...
Movie pageA Spanish Dilemma
as The SeñoritaFred Ward and Mack Sennett are two Spanish brothers seeking the hand of a lovely senorita played...
Movie pageThe Mistaken Masher
as Mabel - George's GirlGeorgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His...
Movie pageBetty Becomes a Maid
as BettyMargaret is the older and Betty the younger of two sisters. Their brother Jack brings a young...
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