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

• 2020Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — archive footage
• 2009The Parrott Chase — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1992Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1992The Chaplin Puzzle — (archive footage)
• 1988Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1960When Comedy Was King — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1955All in Good Fun — Archive Footage
• 1949Down Memory Lane — (archive footage)
• 1943Happy Times and Jolly Moments — (archive footage)
• 1927Anything Once! — The Little Girl
• 1927One Hour Married
• 1927Should Men Walk Home? — The Girl Bandit
• 1926Raggedy Rose — Raggedy Rose
• 1926The Nickel-Hopper — Paddy
• 1923Suzanna — Suzanna
• 1923The Extra Girl — Sue Graham
• 1922Head Over Heels — Tina
• 1922Oh, Mabel Behave — The Innkeeper's Daughter
• 1921Molly O' — Molly O'Dair
• 1920Pinto — Pinto
• 1920The Slim Princess — Kalora
• 1920What Happened To Rosa — Mayme Ladd / Rosa Alvaro
• 1919Jinx — The Jinx
• 1919Sis Hopkins — Sis Hopkins
• 1919The Pest — Jigs
• 1919Upstairs — Elsie MacFarland
• 1919When Doctors Disagree — Millie Martin
• 1918A Perfect 36 — Mabel
• 1918Back to the Woods — Stephanie Trent
• 1918Dodging a Million — Arabella Flynn
• 1918Joan of Plattsburg — Joan
• 1918Mickey — Mickey, Producer
• 1918Peck's Bad Girl — Minnie Penelope Peck
• 1918Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand — Italian Girl
• 1918The Floor Below — Patricia O'Rourke
• 1918The Venus Model — Kitty O'Brien
• 1916Bright Lights — Mabel
• 1916Fatty and Mabel Adrift — Mabel
• 1916He Did and He Didn’t — The Doctor's Wife
• 1915Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition — Mabel
• 1915Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life — Mabel
• 1915Mabel Lost and Won — Mabel, Director
• 1915Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco — Herself, Director
• 1915Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day — Mabel
• 1915Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life — Mabel
• 1915Mabel, Fatty and the Law — Mabel - Fatty's Wife
• 1915Mabel’s Wilful Way — Mabel
• 1915My Valet — Mabel Stebbins
• 1915Stolen Magic — The Friend's Wife
• 1915That Little Band Of Gold — Mabel - the Wife
• 1915The Little Teacher — The Little Teacher
• 1915Their Social Splash
• 1915Wished on Mabel — Mabel
• 1914A Film Johnnie — Mabel
• 1914A Gambling Rube — Unconfimed role
• 1914A Glimpse of Los Angeles
• 1914A Misplaced Foot — Mabel
• 1914A Missing Bride — Unconfirmed role
• 1914Caught in a Cabaret — Mabel, Director, Writer
• 1914Fatty's Wild Night
• 1914Fatty's Wine Party — The Girl
• 1914Gentlemen of Nerve — Mabel
• 1914Getting Acquainted — Ambrose's Wife Mabel
• 1914Hello, Mabel — Mabel - the 'Hello' Girl
• 1914Her Friend the Bandit — Mabel
• 1914His Trysting Places — Mabel, The Wife
• 1914Love and Gasoline — Director
• 1914Lovers' Post Office
• 1914Mabel at the Wheel — Mabel, Director
• 1914Mabel's Blunder — Mabel, Director, Writer
• 1914Mabel's Busy Day — Mabel, Writer, Director
• 1914Mabel's Married Life — Mabel, Writer
• 1914Mabel's New Job — Mabel
• 1914Mabel's Strange Predicament — Mabel, Director
• 1914Mabel’s Bear Escape — Mabel, Director
• 1914Mabel’s Latest Prank — Mabel
• 1914Mabel’s Nerve — Mabel, Director
• 1914Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair — Mabel, Director
• 1914Mack at It Again — Mabel
• 1914The Alarm
• 1914The Fatal Mallet — Pretty Girl (uncredited)
• 1914The Masquerader — Actress Outside Studio (uncredited)
• 1914The Sea Nymphs — Mabel
• 1914Those Country Kids — Mabel
• 1914Tillie's Punctured Romance — Mabel
• 1914Where Hazel Met the Villain
• 1914Won in a Closet — Mabel, Writer, Director
• 1913A Double Wedding — Undetermined Role
• 1913A Healthy Neighborhood
• 1913A Little Hero
• 1913A Muddy Romance — Mabel
• 1913A Noise from the Deep — Mabel
• 1913A Strong Revenge — Mabel
• 1913A Tangled Affair — Mabel
• 1913At Twelve O’Clock — Mabel
• 1913Baby Day
• 1913Bangville Police — Della, the Farmer's Daughter
• 1913Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life — Mabel
• 1913Cohen Saves the Flag — Mabel
• 1913Father’s Choice — Mabel
• 1913Fatty's Flirtation — Mabel
• 1913Foiling Fickle Father — Mabel
• 1913For Lizzie's Sake — Lizzie
• 1913For the Love of Mabel — Mabel
• 1913Heinze’s Resurrection — Uncredited / Unconfirmed
• 1913Her New Beau — Mabel
• 1913Hide and Seek — Mabel Brown - the Boss's Daughter
• 1913His Chum the Baron — Party Girl
• 1913How Hiram Won Out — Sallie
• 1913Hubby’s Job — Wifey
• 1913Just Brown’s Luck — Mrs. Brown
• 1913Love Sickness at Sea — Mabel
• 1913Love and Courage — The Country Boy's Sweetheart
• 1913Love and Pain — Mabel
• 1913Mabel's Dramatic Career — Mabel, the Kitchen Maid
• 1913Mabel's New Hero — Mabel
• 1913Mabel’s Awful Mistakes — Mabel
• 1913Mabel’s Heroes — Mabel
• 1913Near To Earth
• 1913On His Wedding Day — Wedding Guest
• 1913Professor Bean's Removal — Mabel - Professor Bean's Daughter
• 1913Red Hot Romance — Señorita
• 1913Saving Mabel’s Dad — Mabel
• 1913The Battle of Who Run — Mack's Girl
• 1913The Bowling Match — Mabel
• 1913The Champion — Mabel
• 1913The Cure That Failed — Mabel
• 1913The Deacon Outwitted
• 1913The Doctored Affair — Tillie
• 1913The Fatal Taxicab — Mabel
• 1913The Foreman of the Jury — Mabel
• 1913The Gusher — Oil Well Buyer's Sweetheart
• 1913The Gypsy Queen — The Gypsy Queen
• 1913The Hansom Driver — Mabel
• 1913The Mistaken Masher — Mabel - George's Girl
• 1913The Ragtime Band — Mabel
• 1913The Riot — Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
• 1913The Rube and the Baron — Mabel
• 1913The Sleuths at the Floral Parade — The Woman
• 1913The Speed Kings — Mabel
• 1913The Speed Queen — Nellie
• 1913The Telltale Light — Mabel
• 1913The Waiters' Picnic — Mabel - the Cashier
• 1913Those Good Old Days — The Peasant Girl
• 1913When Dreams Come True — The Peddler's Wife
• 1913Zuzu, the Band Leader — Mabel - Zuzu's Admirer
• 1912A Dash Through the Clouds — Josephine
• 1912A Desperate Lover
• 1912A Family Mixup — A Wife
• 1912A Midnight Elopement — Sally Rice
• 1912A Spanish Dilemma — The Señorita
• 1912A Temperamental Husband — wife
• 1912A Voice from the Deep — Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
• 1912An Interrupted Elopement — Alice, Bob's Sweetheart
• 1912At Coney Island — The Girl
• 1912At It Again — Mrs. Smith
• 1912Brown’s Séance — Mrs. Brown
• 1912Cohen Collects a Debt
• 1912Drummer’s Vacation
• 1912He Must Have a Wife — The Girl
• 1912Helen's Marriage — Helen
• 1912Help! Help! — Mrs. Suburbanite
• 1912Hot Stuff — Hank's Sweetheart
• 1912Katchem Kate — Katchem Kate
• 1912Mabel's Lovers — Mabel
• 1912Mabel's Stratagem — Mabel
• 1912Mabel’s Adventures — Mabel
• 1912Mr. Fixit — Mabel
• 1912Mr. Grouch at the Seashore — Undetermined Secondary Role
• 1912Neighbors — First French Family, the Wife
• 1912Oh, Those Eyes! — Gladys
• 1912Pat's Day Off — Bridget, His Wife
• 1912Pedro's Dilemma — Girl
• 1912Riley and Schultze
• 1912The Ambitious Butler
• 1912The Beating He Needed — Girl
• 1912The Brave Hunter — The Woman
• 1912The Deacon's Troubles
• 1912The Duel — Mabel
• 1912The Engagement Ring — Alice, Writer
• 1912The Eternal Mother — Mary, the Woman
• 1912The Fatal Chocolate — The City Girl
• 1912The Fickle Spaniard — Marcelle
• 1912The Flirting Husband — Mrs. Smith
• 1912The Furs — The Wife
• 1912The Mender of Nets — The Net Mender's rival
• 1912The New Baby — The Wife
• 1912The New Neighbor
• 1912The Rivals — Mabel
• 1912The Tourists — Trixie - a Tourist
• 1912The Tragedy of a Dress Suit — The Heiress, Writer
• 1912The Water Nymph — Diving Venus
• 1912Tomboy Bessie — Tomboy Bessie
• 1912What the Doctor Ordered — Jenks' Daughter
• 1912When Kings Were the Law — At Court (Uncredited)
• 1911A Tale of Two Cities
• 1911A Victim of Circumstance
• 1911Betty Becomes a Maid — Betty
• 1911Dead Man’s Honor — Helen
• 1911Her Awakening — The Daughter
• 1911His Mother — Donald's Fiancee
• 1911How Betty Won the School — Betty's Rival
• 1911Italian Blood
• 1911Picciola; or, The Prison Flower — Theresa Girhardi
• 1911Saved from Himself — The Stenographer
• 1911The Baron — The Heiress
• 1911The Changing of Silas Warner — The Son's Wife
• 1911The Diamond Star — Guest at Dinner Party
• 1911The Diving Girl — The Niece
• 1911The Inventor’s Secret
• 1911The Making of a Man — In Second Audience
• 1911The Revenue Man and His Girl
• 1911The Squaw's Love — Wild Flower
• 1911The Strategy of Ann
• 1911The Subduing of Mrs. Nag — Miss Prue, the Stenographer
• 1911The Unveiling — The Showgirl
• 1911Through His Wife’s Picture — Wifey
• 1911Troublesome Secretaries — Betty Harding
• 1911Two Overcoats
• 1911When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins — Mabel, Jack's Wife
• 1911Why He Gave Up — The Wife
• 1910Over the Garden Wall
• 1910The Indiscretions of Betty
• 1910Wilful Peggy — Maid

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2016The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Looking for Mabel Normand — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists — Self (archive footage)
• 1961Days of Thrills and Laughter — Self (archive footage)
• 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) — Self (archive footage)
• 1931Stars of Yesterday — Self
• 1922Seeing Stars — Self