Mabel Normand
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Mabel Normand was an American silent film
comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett
's Keystone Studios
and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers
and directors
. Onscreen she co-starred in commercially successful films with Charlie Chaplin
and Roscoe Arbuckle more than a dozen times each, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man
. 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.
Born Amabel Ethelreid Normand in New Brighton
, Staten Island, New York, she grew up in extreme poverty. Her father, Claude Normand, was sporadically employed as a carpenter at Sailors' Snug Harbor home for elderly seamen. Before she entered films at age 16 in 1909, Normand worked as an artist's model
, which included posing for postcards illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
, creator of the Gibson Girl
image. She met director Mack Sennett
while at D. W. Griffith
's Biograph Company and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him; he later brought her across when he founded Keystone Studios
in 1912. Her first films portrayed her as a bathing beauty, but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy and became a star of Sennett's short films. Normand appeared with Charlie Chaplin
and Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle in many short films.
She played a role in starting Chaplin's film career and acted as his leading lady and mentor in a number of films, sometimes co-writing and/or co-directing films with him. Chaplin had considerable initial difficulty adjusting to the demands of film acting and his performance suffered for it. After his first film appearance in Making a Living
, Sennett felt he had made a costly mistake. Most historians agree it was Normand who persuaded him to give Chaplin another chance.
In 1914 she starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler
in Tillie's Punctured Romance
, the first feature-length comedy. Later that same year, Chaplin first played his Tramp character in Mabel's Strange Predicament
, although it wound up being the second Tramp film released. In 1918, as her relationship with Sennett came to an end, Normand signed a $3,500 a week contract with Samuel Goldwyn
and opened a film studio in Culver City
. Her breakup with Sennett seems to have caused Normand to re-evaluate her life and she embarked on a program of self-education, developing keen and lasting interests in reading and books.
Director William Desmond Taylor
shared her interest in books and the two formed a close relationship. According to author Robert Giroux
, Taylor was deeply in love with Normand, who had originally approached him for help in curing her cocaine
dependency. Based upon Normand's subsequent statements to investigators, her repeated relapses were devastating for Taylor. According to Giroux, Taylor met with Federal prosecutors shortly before his death and offered to assist them in filing charges against Normand's cocaine suppliers. Giroux expresses a belief that Normand's suppliers learned of this meeting and hired a contract killer to assassinate the director. According to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons for her lover's murder, but did not know the identity of the triggerman.
On the night of his murder, Normand left Taylor's bungalow at 7:45 p.m. in a happy mood, carrying a book he had given her as a loan. They blew kisses to each other as her limousine drove away. Normand was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive.
The Los Angeles Police Department
subjected Normand to a grueling interrogation, but ruled her out as a suspect. Most subsequent writers have done the same. However, Normand's career had already slowed and her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was seen as a moral failing. According to George Hopkins, who sat next to her at Taylor's funeral, Normand wept inconsolably throughout the ceremony.
.
in 1926 after discussions with director/producer F. Richard Jones
, who had directed her at Keystone. At Roach she made the film Raggedy Rose
plus four others which were released with publicity support from the Hollywood community (including her friend Mary Pickford
).
In 1926 she married actor Lew Cody
, with whom she had appeared in Mickey
in 1918. They lived separately in nearby houses in Beverly Hills before Cody moved in with her. However, Normand's health was in decline. After an extended stay in a sanitarium she died from tuberculosis
in Monrovia, California
at the age of 37. She was interred as Mabel Normand-Cody at Calvary Cemetery
, Los Angeles
.
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 rediscovery, as Normand directed this movie as well as starring in the lead role, so it is a showcase for her talents on both sides of the camera.
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
's Keystone Studios
Keystone Studios
Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
and directors
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. Onscreen she co-starred in commercially successful films with Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
and Roscoe Arbuckle more than a dozen times each, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man
Leading man
Leading man or leading gentleman is an informal term for the actor who plays a love interest to the leading actress in a film or play. A leading man is usually an all rounder; capable of singing, dancing, and acting at a professional level, but never outshining his female co-star...
. 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
William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
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.
Early life and career
New Brighton, Staten Island
New Brighton, formerly an independent village, is today a neighborhood located on the North Shore of Staten Island in New York City, USA. The neighborhood comprises an older industrial and residential harbor front area along the Kill Van Kull west of St. George.The village of New Brighton was...
, Staten Island, New York, she grew up in extreme poverty. Her father, Claude Normand, was sporadically employed as a carpenter at Sailors' Snug Harbor home for elderly seamen. Before she entered films at age 16 in 1909, Normand worked as an artist's model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, which included posing for postcards illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century....
, creator of the Gibson Girl
Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl was the personification of a feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen-and-ink-illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States.Some people argue that the...
image. She met director Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
while at D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
's Biograph Company and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him; he later brought her across when he founded Keystone Studios
Keystone Studios
Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
in 1912. Her first films portrayed her as a bathing beauty, but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy and became a star of Sennett's short films. Normand appeared with Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
and Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle in many short films.
She played a role in starting Chaplin's film career and acted as his leading lady and mentor in a number of films, sometimes co-writing and/or co-directing films with him. Chaplin had considerable initial difficulty adjusting to the demands of film acting and his performance suffered for it. After his first film appearance in Making a Living
Making a Living
Making a Living is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops....
, Sennett felt he had made a costly mistake. Most historians agree it was Normand who persuaded him to give Chaplin another chance.
In 1914 she starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...
in Tillie's Punctured Romance
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914 film)
Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops...
, the first feature-length comedy. Later that same year, Chaplin first played his Tramp character in Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Mabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, notable for being the first film for which Chaplin donned the Tramp costume.-First "Tramp" appearance filmed:...
, although it wound up being the second Tramp film released. In 1918, as her relationship with Sennett came to an end, Normand signed a $3,500 a week contract with Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...
and opened a film studio in Culver City
Culver City, California
Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883, up from 38,816 at the 2000 census. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Culver...
. Her breakup with Sennett seems to have caused Normand to re-evaluate her life and she embarked on a program of self-education, developing keen and lasting interests in reading and books.
Scandals
William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...
shared her interest in books and the two formed a close relationship. According to author Robert Giroux
Robert Giroux
Robert Giroux was an influential American book editor and publisher. Starting his editing career with Harcourt, Brace & Co., he was hired away to work for Roger W. Straus, Jr. at Farrar & Straus in 1955, where he became a partner and, eventually, its chairman...
, Taylor was deeply in love with Normand, who had originally approached him for help in curing her cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
dependency. Based upon Normand's subsequent statements to investigators, her repeated relapses were devastating for Taylor. According to Giroux, Taylor met with Federal prosecutors shortly before his death and offered to assist them in filing charges against Normand's cocaine suppliers. Giroux expresses a belief that Normand's suppliers learned of this meeting and hired a contract killer to assassinate the director. According to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons for her lover's murder, but did not know the identity of the triggerman.
On the night of his murder, Normand left Taylor's bungalow at 7:45 p.m. in a happy mood, carrying a book he had given her as a loan. They blew kisses to each other as her limousine drove away. Normand was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive.
The Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
subjected Normand to a grueling interrogation, but ruled her out as a suspect. Most subsequent writers have done the same. However, Normand's career had already slowed and her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was seen as a moral failing. According to George Hopkins, who sat next to her at Taylor's funeral, Normand wept inconsolably throughout the ceremony.
Dines killing
In 1924 her chauffeur Joe Kelly shot and wounded millionaire oil broker and amateur golfer Courtland S. Dines with her pistol. At the time Dines was romantically involved with Normand's friend (and frequent Chaplin co-star) Edna PurvianceEdna Purviance
Edna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.-Early life:...
.
Later career and death
She continued making films and was signed by Hal Roach StudiosHal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...
in 1926 after discussions with director/producer F. Richard Jones
F. Richard Jones
Frank Richard Jones was an American director and producer.-Early life and career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company...
, who had directed her at Keystone. At Roach she made the film Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose (1926 film)
Raggedy Rose is a 1926 film starring Mabel Normand, co-written by Stan Laurel, and directed by Richard Wallace.-Cast:* Mabel Normand as Raggedy Rose* Carl Miller as Ted Tudor* Max Davidson as Moe Ginsberg* James Finlayson as Simpson Sniffle...
plus four others which were released with publicity support from the Hollywood community (including her friend Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
).
In 1926 she married actor Lew Cody
Lew Cody
Lew Cody, birth name Louis Joseph Côté was an American actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age....
, with whom she had appeared in Mickey
Mickey (1918 film)
Mickey is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company.-Plot:...
in 1918. They lived separately in nearby houses in Beverly Hills before Cody moved in with her. However, Normand's health was in decline. After an extended stay in a sanitarium she died from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
in Monrovia, California
Monrovia, California
Monrovia is a city located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 36,590 at the 2010 census, down from 36,929 at the 2000 census...
at the age of 37. She was interred as Mabel Normand-Cody at Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California...
, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Legacy
Mabel Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameHollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.
Her film Mabel's Blunder
Mabel's Blunder
Mabel's Blunder is a silent comedy film directed by, written by, and starring Mabel Normand, the most successful of the early silent screen comediennes.-Plot:...
(1914) was added to the National Film Registry
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...
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
Won in a Closet
Won in a Closet is a black-and-white comedy film, notable as the first film directed by Mabel Normand.-Preservation status:This film, previously thought to be a lost film, was discovered in 2010 in New Zealand where it was known as Won in a Cupboard. This makes the film the oldest surviving film...
(exhibited in New Zealand under its alternate title Won in a Cupboard), a short comedy previously believed lost. This film is a significant rediscovery, as Normand directed this movie as well as starring in the lead role, so it is a showcase for her talents on both sides of the camera.
Quote
- Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary PickfordMary PickfordMary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
, the prissy bitch. (Normand and Pickford were close friends; this was meant jokingly.)
Cultural references
- A nod to Normand's celebrity in early Hollywood came through the name of a leading character in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "Norma Desmond", which has been cited as a combination of the names Mabel Normand and William Desmond Taylor.
- The 1974 Broadway musical Mack & MabelMack & MabelMack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars...
(Michael StewartMichael Stewart (playwright)Michael Stewart was an American playwright and librettist.Born Michael Stuart Rubin in Manhattan, Stewart attended Queens College, and is a graduate of Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts from 1953. Michael Stewart (August 1, 1924 – September 20, 1987) was an American playwright...
and Jerry HermanJerry HermanJerry Herman is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage...
) fictionalized the romance between Normand and Mack Sennett. Normand was played by Bernadette PetersBernadette PetersBernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...
and Robert PrestonRobert Preston (actor)-Early life:Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth L. and Frank Wesley Meservey, a garment worker and billing clerk for American Express. After attending Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, California, he studied acting at the Pasadena Community...
played Mack Sennett. - Stevie NicksStevie NicksStephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...
wrote a song called "Mabel Normand" which was never officially released but exists in demo form. - Normand is played by actress Marisa TomeiMarisa TomeiMarisa Tomei is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987...
in the 1992 film Chaplin, by Morganne Picard in the motion picture Return to BabylonReturn to BabylonReturn to Babylon is an upcoming silent film. It was directed by Alex Monty Canawati and written by Matt Riddlehoover. It stars an ensemble cast of Jennifer Tilly, María Conchita Alonso, Ione Skye, Debi Mazar, and Tippi Hedren.-Plot:...
(2008), and more recently by Penelope LagosPenelope LagosPenelope Lagos is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing the role of Mabel Normand in the short film Madcap Mabel...
in the first bio-pic about her life, a 35-minute dramatic short film appropriately entitled Madcap MabelMadcap MabelMadcap Mabel is a 2010 dramatic 35-minute short film about a guilty reporter who had helped sensationalize the scandals that damaged the career of dying silent film comedienne/writer/director Mabel Normand...
(2010).
Selected filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Indiscretions of Betty Indiscretions of Betty Indiscretions of Betty is a black and white comedy film released by the Vitagraph Company of America in 1910, notable for the first known screen appearance of Mabel Normand. Today it's unknown if a copy exists. No other information is currently available about the film.-External links:***... |
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| 1911 | Her Awakening Her Awakening Her Awakening is a 1911 short predating feature-length films starring comedienne Mabel Normand and directed by D. W. Griffith. Normand portrays a vivaciously effervescent young woman ashamed to introduce her poorly dressed mother to her elegant suitor... |
The Daughter | Directed by D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera... |
| 1911 | Why He Gave Up Why He Gave Up Why He Gave Up is a 1911 short film starring Fred Mace and Mabel Normand. The film was co-directed by Mack Sennett & Henry Lehrman and filmed in Huntington, Long Island.-Cast:* Fred Mace ... The Husband* Mabel Normand ... The Wife... |
The Wife | Co-directed by Mack Sennett Mack Sennett Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"... With Fred Mace Fred Mace Fred Mace was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 156 films between 1909 and 1916. Mace worked for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios... |
| 1912 | The Water Nymph The Water Nymph The Water Nymph is a 1912 comedy "split reel" short starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett. Lithely athletic Normand performed her own diving stunts for the film, which was the first Keystone comedy.... |
Diving Venus | Alternative title: The Beach Flirt Directed by Mack Sennett With Mack Sennett and Ford Sterling Ford Sterling Ford Sterling was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.-Biography:... First Keystone comedy |
| 1912 | The Flirting Husband The Flirting Husband The Flirting Husband is a 1912 short film comedy starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling, and directed by Mack Sennett.-External links:***... |
Directed by Mack Sennett With Ford Sterling |
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| 1912 | Mabel's Lovers Mabel's Lovers Mabel's Lovers is a 1912 short film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett.-Cast:Mabel Normand ... Mabel Fred Mace Ford Sterling Alice Davenport -External links:* at the Internet Movie Database***... |
Mabel | Directed by Mack Sennett With Fred Mace and Ford Sterling |
| 1912 | At Coney Island At Coney Island At Coney Island is a 1912 short comedy starring Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Alice Davenport, Fred Mace, and Ford Sterling. The film was directed by Mack Sennett.-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database***... |
Alternative title: Cohen at Coney Island Directed by Mack Sennett With Ford Sterling and Fred Mace |
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| 1912 | Mabel's Adventures Mabel's Adventures Mabel's Adventures is a 1912 short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett.-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database***... |
Mabel | Directed by Mack Sennett With Fred Mace and Ford Sterling |
| 1913 | The Bangville Police The Bangville Police The Bangville Police is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and the Keystone Kops . The film, notable for being regarded as the seminal Keystone Cops short, was directed by Henry Lehrman... |
Farm Girl | With the Keystone Cops |
| 1913 | A Noise from the Deep A Noise from the Deep A Noise from the Deep is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film was directed by Mack Sennett and also features the Keystone Cops on horseback... |
Directed by Mack Sennett With Roscoe Arbuckle and the Keystone Cops |
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| 1913 | A Little Hero | With Harold Lloyd Harold Lloyd Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.... |
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| 1913 | Mabel's Awful Mistakes Mabel's Awful Mistakes Mabel's Awful Mistakes is a 1913 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett. The film also features Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.-External links:***... |
Alternative title: Her Deceitful Lover Directed by Mack Sennett With Mack Sennett and Ford Sterling |
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| 1913 | Passions, He Had Three Passions, He Had Three Passions, He Had Three is a 1913 short comedy film featuring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle* Nick Cogley* Alice Davenport* Dot Farley* Mabel Normand* Betty Schade* Al St. John... |
Alternative title: He Had Three With Roscoe Arbuckle |
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| 1913 | For the Love of Mabel For the Love of Mabel For the Love of Mabel is a 1913 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle.... |
With Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling | |
| 1913 | Mabel's Dramatic Career Mabel's Dramatic Career Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Roscoe Arbuckle.The film features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema.-Cast:... |
Mabel, the kitchen maid | Alternative title: Her Dramatic Debut Directed by Mack Sennett With Mack Sennett and Ford Sterling |
| 1913 | The Gypsy Queen The Gypsy Queen The Gypsy Queen is a 1913 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle.... |
Directed by Mack Sennett With Roscoe Arbuckle |
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| 1913 | Cohen Saves the Flag Cohen Saves the Flag Cohen Saves the Flag is a 1913 U.S. comedy film directed and produced by Mack Sennett, and starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.-Plot:... |
Rebecca | Directed by Mack Sennett With Ford Sterling |
| 1914 | Mabel's Stormy Love Affair Mabel's Stormy Love Affair Mabel's Stormy Love Affair is a 1914 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by George Nichols.-Cast: Mabel Normand Nick Cogley Alice Davenport Edgar Kennedy Hank Mann -External links:***... |
Directed by George Nichols George Nichols (actor) George Nichols was an American actor and director. He appeared in 221 films between 1908 and 1928. He also directed 103 films between 1911 and 1916.He was born in Rockford, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.... |
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| 1914 | Won in a Closet Won in a Closet Won in a Closet is a black-and-white comedy film, notable as the first film directed by Mabel Normand.-Preservation status:This film, previously thought to be a lost film, was discovered in 2010 in New Zealand where it was known as Won in a Cupboard. This makes the film the oldest surviving film... |
Director Alternative title: Won in a Cupboard |
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| 1914 | In the Clutches of the Gang In the Clutches of the Gang In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle* Charles Avery* Nick Cogley* George Jeske - Keystone Kop* Edgar Kennedy* Hank Mann* Harry McCoy* Rube Miller* George Nichols... |
With Roscoe Arbuckle and the Keystone Cops | |
| 1914 | Mack at It Again Mack at It Again Mack at It Again is a 1914 short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. Mack Sennett also directed the film. The picture was produced by Sennett's Keystone Film Company and distributed by Mutual Film.-External links:... |
Directed by Mack Sennett With Mack Sennett |
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| 1914 | Mabel's Strange Predicament Mabel's Strange Predicament Mabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, notable for being the first film for which Chaplin donned the Tramp costume.-First "Tramp" appearance filmed:... |
Mabel | Alternative title: Hotel Mixup With Charles Chaplin (First film with Chaplin as the Tramp The Tramp The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era.... although the second released.) |
| 1914 | Mabel's Blunder Mabel's Blunder Mabel's Blunder is a silent comedy film directed by, written by, and starring Mabel Normand, the most successful of the early silent screen comediennes.-Plot:... |
Mabel | Director With Charley Chase Charley Chase Charley Chase was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies... and Al St. John Added to the National Film Registry National Film Registry The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008... in 2009 |
| 1914 | A Film Johnnie A Film Johnnie A Film Johnnie is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Mabel Normand.-Cast:* Charles Chaplin - The Film Johnnie* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Himself* Virginia Kirtley - The Keystone Girl... |
Mabel | With Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1914 | Mabel at the Wheel Mabel at the Wheel Mabel at the Wheel is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.-Synopsis:... |
Mabel | Co-directed by Normand and Sennett With Charles Chaplin |
| 1914 | Caught in a Cabaret Caught in a Cabaret Caught in a Cabaret is a short film from 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin and the film's writer/director Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend... |
Mabel | Director, Writer With Charles Chaplin |
| 1914 | Mabel's Nerve Mabel's Nerve Mabel's Nerve is a comedy film starring Mabel Normand and directed by George Nichols.-External links:****... |
Mabel | Directed by George Nichols |
| 1914 | The Alarm The Alarm (film) The Alarm is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle* Minta Durfee* Hank Mann* Mabel Normand* Al St. John... |
Alternative title: Fireman's Picnic With Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee Minta Durfee Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee was an American silent film actress from Los Angeles, California, possibly best known for her role in Mickey .-Biography:... |
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| 1914 | Her Friend the Bandit Her Friend the Bandit Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.... |
Mabel | Co-directed by Normand and Chaplin With Charles Chaplin |
| 1914 | The Fatal Mallet The Fatal Mallet The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's rivals for Normand's attention .The Fatal Mallet is one of more than a dozen early films that... |
Mabel | Written and directed by Mack Sennett With Charles Chaplin and Mack Sennett |
| 1914 | Mabel's Busy Day Mabel's Busy Day Mabel's Busy Day is a 1914 short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin; the film was also written and directed by Mabel Normand. The supporting cast includes Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, Al St. John, Charley Chase, and Mack Sennett.-Synopsis:Mabel tries to... |
Mabel | Writer, Director With Charles Chaplin and Chester Conklin Chester Conklin Chester Cooper Conklin was an American comedian and actor. He appeared in over 280 films, about half of them in the silent era.-Early life:... |
| 1914 | Mabel's Married Life Mabel's Married Life Mabel's Married Life is an American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring and co-written by Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Chaplin. As was so often the case during his first year in film, Chaplin's character is soon staggering drunk.-Synopsis:Mabel goes home... |
Mabel | Co-written by Normand and Chaplin With Charles Chaplin |
| 1914 | Mabel's New Job Mabel's New Job Mabel's New Job is a 1914 film starring Mabel Normand and co-directed by Normand and George Nichols.-Cast: Mabel Normand Chester Conklin Charley Chase Listed alphabetically: Dave Anderson Cecile Arnold Dixie Chene Alice Davenport... |
Writer, Co-director With Chester Conklin and Charley Chase |
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| 1914 | The Sky Pirate The Sky Pirate The Sky Pirate is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle* Minta Durfee* Hank Mann* Mabel Normand* Al St. John... |
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| 1914 | The Masquerader | Actress | Uncredited Written and Directed by Charles Chaplin With Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1914 | Mabel's Latest Prank Mabel's Latest Prank Mabel's Latest Prank is a 1914 film both starring and co-directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database... |
Mabel | Alternative title: Touch of Rheumatism Co-directed by Normand and Sennett With Mack Sennett and Hank Mann Hank Mann Hank Mann was a comedian and silent screen star who is best known as the last surviving member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Mann was the originator of the idea for the Keysotne Cops... |
| 1914 | Hello, Mabel Hello, Mabel Hello, Mabel is a 1914 short comedy film both starring and directed by Mabel Normand, and featuring Charley Chase, Al St. John, Minta Durfee, and Mack Swain.-Cast: Mabel Normand ... MabelIn alphabetical order: Phyllis Allen ... Woman in hall... |
Mabel | Director Alternative title: On a Busy Wire With Charley Chase and Minta Durfee |
| 1914 | Gentlemen of Nerve Gentlemen of Nerve Gentlemen of Nerve is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Chaplin.-Plot:Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend... |
Mabel | Alternative titles: Charlie at the Races Some Nerve Directed by Charles Chaplin With Charles Chaplin and Chester Conklin |
| 1914 | His Trysting Place His Trysting Place His Trysting Place is a short 1914 film starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand.-Synopsis:Charlie and his friend Ambrose meet in a restaurant and accidentally leave with each other's coats. Charlie was going to pick up a baby bottle and Ambrose was going to mail a love letter that was in his... |
Mabel, The Wife | Written and directed by Charles Chaplin With Charles Chaplin |
| 1914 | Shotguns That Kick Shotguns That Kick Shotguns That Kick is a 1914 comedy short starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Arbuckle's acrobatic nephew Al St. John. The film was directed by Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle* Edward Dillon - * Mabel Normand... |
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle and Al St. John |
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| 1914 | Getting Acquainted Getting Acquainted A Fair Exchange formerly named as "Getting Acquainted" is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand... |
Ambrose's Wife | Written and directed by Charles Chaplin With Charles Chaplin and Phyllis Allen Phyllis Allen Phyllis Allen was an American vaudeville and silent screen comedienne who worked with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mack Sennett during a film career spanning 74 movies during the decade between 1913 and 1923.-Partial filmography:*Forced Bravery *Murphy's I.O.U.... |
| 1915 | Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day is a 1915 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Fatty* Harry McCoy - Mabel's Nagging Husband* Alice Davenport - Fatty's Nagging Wife... |
Mabel | Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life is a 1915 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Roscoe* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Al St. John - The Squire's son* Josef Swickard - Mabel's father... |
Mabel | Alternative title: Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco is a 1915 short comedy-documentary film both starring and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.-Production background:... |
Mabel | Directed by Normand and Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | Mabel and Fatty's Married Life Mabel and Fatty's Married Life Mabel and Fatty's Married Life is a 1915 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Fatty, her husband* Al St... |
Mabel | Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | That Little Band of Gold That Little Band of Gold That Little Band of Gold is a 1915 short comedy film directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and starring Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ford Sterling.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Hubby* Mabel Normand - Wifey* Ford Sterling - Gassy Gotrox... |
Wifey | Uncredited Alternative title: For Better or Worse Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling |
| 1915 | Wished on Mabel Wished on Mabel Wished on Mabel is a 1915 short comedy film directed by Mabel Normand and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Fatty* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Alice Davenport - Mabel's mother* Joe Bordeaux - Thief* Edgar Kennedy - Cop... |
Mabel | Director With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | Mabel's Wilful Way Mabel's Wilful Way Mabel's Wilful Way is a 1915 short comedy film directed by Mabel Normand and starring Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Mabel Normand - Mabel* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Fatty* Joe Bordeaux - Cop* Glen Cavender* Alice Davenport - Mabel's mother... |
Mabel | Co-directed by Normand and Sennett With Roscoe Arbuckle |
| 1915 | Mabel Lost and Won Mabel Lost and Won Mabel Lost and Won is a 1915 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Owen Moore. The film was also directed by Mabel Normand.-External links:***... |
Director With Owen Moore Owen Moore Owen Moore was an Irish-born actor in American films, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.-Life and career:... and Mack Swain Mack Swain Mack Swain was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.-Film career:... |
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| 1915 | The Little Teacher The Little Teacher The Little Teacher is a 1915 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle, and directed by Mack Sennett.-Cast:* Mabel Normand as The Little Teacher* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fat Student* Mack Sennett as Tall Student... |
The Little Teacher | Alternative title: A Small Town Bully Directed by Mack Sennett With Roscoe Arbuckle and Mack Sennett |
| 1916 | Fatty and Mabel Adrift Fatty and Mabel Adrift Fatty and Mabel Adrift is a 1916 Keystone short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Al St. John.- Plot :The story involves Arbuckle as a farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. They have their honeymoon with Fatty's dog Luke, at a cottage on the seashore. At high... |
Mabel | Alternative title: Concrete Biscuits Written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle and Al St. John |
| 1916 | He Did and He Didn't He Did and He Didn't He Did and He Didn't is a 1916 short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. The dark plot, extremely sophisticated for its time, involves a corpulent husband who finds himself consumed with jealousy when his wife's dashingly handsome old schoolmate unexpectedly turns up... |
The Doctor's Wife | Written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle With Roscoe Arbuckle and Al St. John |
| 1918 | The Venus Model The Venus Model The Venus Model is a 1918 silent romantic comedy starring Mabel Normand and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The film was made when Goldwyn Pictures and many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.-Cast:*... |
Kitty O'Brien | Directed by Clarence G. Badger Clarence G. Badger Clarence G. Badger was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His most noteworthy films include It, starring Clara Bow, more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two features starring Raymond Griffith, Paths to Paradise and Hands... With Rod La Rocque Rod La Rocque -Biography:He was born Roderick La Rocque in Chicago, Illinois. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was... |
| 1918 | A Perfect 36 A Perfect 36 A Perfect 36 is a 1918 silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand, written by Tex Charwate, and directed by Charles Giblyn.-Cast:* Mabel Normand ... Mabel* Rod La Rocque ... O.P. Dildock* Flora Zabelle ... Lena* Leila Romer ... Landlady... |
Mabel | Directed by Charles Giblyn With Rod La Rocque |
| 1919 | Jinx Jinx (1919 film) Jinx is a 1919 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Victor Schertzinger.-Cast:Mabel Normand ... The Jinx Florence Carpenter ... Rory Bory Alice Ogden Crane ... Bull Hogarth Cullen Landis ... Slicker Evans Clarence Arper ... Sheriff Jepson... |
The Jinx | Directed by Victor Schertzinger Victor Schertzinger Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar... |
| 1921 | Molly O' Molly O (1921 film) Molly O' is a silent film starring Mabel Normand and directed by F. Richard Jones.-Cast:*Mabel Normand ... Molly O'*George Nichols ... Tim O'Dair*Anna Dodge ... Mrs. Tim O'Dair *Albert Hackett ... Billy O'Dair... |
Molly O' | Directed by F. Richard Jones F. Richard Jones Frank Richard Jones was an American director and producer.-Early life and career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company... With George Nichols George Nichols Blessed George Nichols was an English Catholic martyr.-Education:Born at Oxford in 1550, George Nichols entered Brasenose College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in 1564 or 1565 where he received his B.A. degree in 1571. He went on to become an usher and a teacher at St... |
| 1922 | Head Over Heels Head Over Heels (1922 film) Head Over Heels is a 1922 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Paul Bern and Victor Schertzinger. This is a surviving comedy at the Library of Congress. The supporting cast includes Raymond Hatton and Adolphe Menjou.-Cast:*Mabel Normand ... Tina... |
Tina | Directed by Paul Bern Paul Bern Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM.-Early life and career:... and Victor Schertzinger With Raymond Hatton Raymond Hatton Raymond William Hatton was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery.... and Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born... |
| 1922 | Oh, Mabel Behave Oh, Mabel Behave Oh, Mabel Behave is a 1922 movie starring Mabel Normand and directed by Mack Sennett.-Cast:Mabel Normand ... Innkeeper's DaughterMack Sennett ... Blaa BlaaFord Sterling ... Squire PeachemOwen Moore ... Randolph Roanoke... |
Innkeeper's Daughter | Directed by Mack Sennett With Mack Sennett and Ford Sterling |
| 1923 | Suzanna Suzanna (1923 film) -Cast:*Mabel Normand - Suzanna*George Nichols - Don Fernando*Walter McGrail - Ramón*Evelyn Sherman - Doña Isabella*Léon Bary - Pancho *Eric Mayne - Don Diego*Winifred Bryson - Dolores*Carl Stockdale - Ruiz*Lon Poff - Álvarez... |
Suzanna | Directed by F. Richard Jones With George Nichols |
| 1923 | The Extra Girl The Extra Girl The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett, The Extra Girl followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor’s Show People... |
Sue Graham | Co-written by Mack Sennett Directed by F. Richard Jones With George Nichols |
| 1926 | Raggedy Rose Raggedy Rose (1926 film) Raggedy Rose is a 1926 film starring Mabel Normand, co-written by Stan Laurel, and directed by Richard Wallace.-Cast:* Mabel Normand as Raggedy Rose* Carl Miller as Ted Tudor* Max Davidson as Moe Ginsberg* James Finlayson as Simpson Sniffle... |
Raggedy Rose | Co-written by Stan Laurel Stan Laurel Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film... Directed by Richard Wallace |
| 1926 | The Nickel-Hopper The Nickel-Hopper The Nickel-Hopper is a 1926 film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Oliver Hardy and Boris Karloff in minor uncredited roles.-Cast:* Mabel Normand - Paddy, the nickel hopper* Michael Visaroff - Paddy's father... |
Paddy, the nickel hopper | Co-written by Stan Laurel Featuring Oliver Hardy Oliver Hardy Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:... (uncredited) |
| 1927 | Should Men Walk Home? Should Men Walk Home? Should Men Walk Home? is a 1927 film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Oliver Hardy and Eugene Pallette. The movie was directed by Leo McCarey.-Cast:* Mabel Normand - The Girl Bandit* Creighton Hale - The Gentleman Crook... |
The Girl Bandit | Directed by Leo McCarey Leo McCarey Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies... With Eugene Pallette Eugene Pallette Eugene William Pallette was an American actor. He appeared in over 240 silent era and sound era motion pictures between 1913 and 1946.... and Oliver Hardy |
| 1927 | One Hour Married One Hour Married One Hour Married is a 1927 film starring Mabel Normand and directed by Jerome Strong and Hal Yates. The film is notable for being Mabel Normand's last appearance onscreen prior to her untimely death.- Cast :* Mabel Normand* Creighton Hale... |
With Creighton Hale Creighton Hale Creighton Hale was an Irish-born American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.-Career:While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company... and James Finlayson |
Further reading
- William Thomas Sherman (2006), Mabel Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films