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Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 [1][2] – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter.
May 15, 2020 · Mabel Normand was a star at age 16 and dead at 37, and the life she lived between those short, brutal years careened between truly glamorous and utterly tragic. From the heady vapors of her fame to the notorious end of her career, here are facts about forgotten Hollywood icon Mabel Normand.
Mar 4, 2024 · Her name may be unfamiliar to some today, but in the 1920s when Hollywood was still adding tinsel to the town, Mabel Normand was an “It Girl.” Just over five feet tall, Normand had a crown of...
Mabel Normand. Actress: Mickey. Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag.
Mabel Normand (born November 9/10, 1892?, Staten Island?, New York, U.S.—died February 23, 1930, Monrovia, California) was an American film actress who was one of the greatest comedians of the silent era.
In the annals of cinema history, few actresses have left as indelible a mark as Mabel Normand. Born on November 9, 1892, in Staten Island, New York, Normand’s career in the early days of Hollywood catapulted her to stardom and helped shape the burgeoning film industry.
Mabel Normand. Mabel Normand starred in at least one hundred and sixty-seven film shorts and twenty-three full-length features, mainly for Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company, and was one of the earliest silent actors to function as her own director.
Feb 23, 2021 · Mabel Normand died on February 23, 1930 at the age of 38. A film pioneer and one of the screen’s funniest women, Normand was – at the height of her career – moviedom’s queen of comedy.
Feb 7, 2023 · The biography, which perpetuates myths about the star already on show in Mack and Mabel, seems to have entrenched the tragic narrative that later underpinned Stevie Nicks’s song ‘Mabel Normand’ and Cari Beauchamp’s fixation on Normand’s alleged drug habit in her biography of Francis Marion.
Considered by some to have been one of the greatest comedians of the silent screen, Mabel Normand was also one of the film industry's early woman directors, taking the helm in many of the early Keystone comedies she made for Mack Sennett, and co-directing some of her later films with Charlie Chaplin, Eddie Dillon, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
