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Mabel Normand is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 9 november 1893 at Staten Island (USA)

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand
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Birth name Mabel Ethelreid Normand
Nationality USA
Birth 9 november 1893 at Staten Island (USA)
Death 23 february 1930 (at 36 years) at Monrovia (USA)

Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, director and producer. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett's in his Keystone Studios films and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own movie studio and production company. Onscreen she appeared in a dozen successful films with Charles Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing/directing) movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man.
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 using 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.

Biography

Débuts
Mabel Normand fait ses débuts au cinéma en 1910 à la Vitagraph dans Over the garden wall, avec Maurice Costello. Mais sa carrière ne commence réellement qu'avec D.W. Griffith et les studios Biograph. En 1912, elle tourne dans A Dash Through The Clouds de Mack Sennett et c'est la première fois qu'une actrice est filmée dans un avion. Sennett la fait travailler dans de petites comédies à la Biograph. Cette même année, alors que Sennett fonde la Keystone Company en Californie, Normand décide de le suivre. Elle s'intéresse à la direction d'acteurs, et n'a que vingt ans lorsqu'elle codirige des films avec lui, avec la jeune vedette Charlie Chaplin : C'est notamment Charlot et le Mannequin (Mabel's Married Life) et Charlot garçon de café (Caught in a Cabaret). Loin de s'éloigner du métier de comédienne, elle est Mickey dans le film éponyme de F. Richard Jones et James Young, long métrage dramatique qui lui amène le succès en 1918. Elle a alors à cette époque quitté Sennett pour signer avec la Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.


Scandales et déclin

Mabel Normand a déjà produit 18 films lorsqu'elle revient aux studios de la Keystone pour le film Molly O' en 1921. C'est alors qu'arrive le scandale qui mettra un terme à sa carrière : son implication dans un meurtre. Le metteur en scène William Desmond Taylor est retrouvé assassiné. Or l'enquête démontre que Mabel Normand est la dernière personne à l'avoir vu vivant. Le mode de vie excentrique de l'actrice est aussi en cause dans une autre affaire. Le chauffeur de Normand a tiré et blessé un magnat du pétrole avec le pistolet de l'actrice. Des pressions affluent alors de toutes parts pour éloigner l'actrice des studios, mais Sennett ne l'abandonne pas et, après maints efforts, il sort The Extra Girl en 1923. Peu après, sans doute las de ces scandales, Sennett finit par la lâcher lorsqu'elle est impliquée dans une histoire de divorce. Normand tournera encore quelques films avec Hal Roach et épousera en 1926 un de ses anciens partenaires, l'acteur Lew Cody qui tenaît à ses côtés le rôle principal masculin de Mickey. Dépendante de la drogue, Mabel Normand meurt 4 ans plus tard de la tuberculose.


Décès
Elle décède en 1930 de la tuberculose à Morovia en Californie, elle est enterrée à Los Angeles.

Usually with

Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
(85 films)
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
(46 films)
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
(15 films)
Al St. John
Al St. John
(35 films)
Alice Davenport
Alice Davenport
(33 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mabel Normand (114 films)

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Actress

One Hour Married, 20minutes
Directed by Hal Yates
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, Creighton Hale, James Finlayson, Noah Young, Clarence Geldart, Syd Crossley
Rating33% 1.6549451.6549451.6549451.6549451.654945
The story is set during the First World War and involves a newly-married wife's attempts to locate her husband (drafted into the army just an hour after they were married) in France.
Should Men Walk Home?, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Mabel Normand, Eugene Pallette, Oliver Hardy, Creighton Hale, Edgar Dearing, Lyle Tayo
Roles The Girl Bandit
Rating65% 3.283353.283353.283353.283353.28335
Un jeune homme prend une jolie femme en stop ; elle le menace d'un revolver pour lui voler son portefeuille, mais le jeune homme accélère et se fait arrêter par un policier qui les suit. La jeune femme est forcée de renoncer à son projet et l'homme lui propose de s'associer, car il est cambrioleur.
Raggedy Rose, 56minutes
Directed by Stan Laurel, F. Richard Jones, Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, Carl Miller, Max Davidson, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Laura La Varnie
Roles Raggedy Rose
Rating67% 3.3543.3543.3543.3543.354
Rose (Normand), who works for a junk dealer (Davidson), dreams of romance with bachelor Ted Tudor (Miller).
The Extra Girl, 1h8
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols, Anna Dodge, Louise Carver, Vernon Dent
Roles Sue Graham
Rating66% 3.3425853.3425853.3425853.3425853.342585
Sue Graham (Normand) is a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to escape marriage, and in the hope of becoming a motion picture star. She wins a contract with a studio on the strength of a picture of a quite different (and very attractive) girl sent instead of hers; but when she arrives the mistake is discovered. Since the error was the result of another’s deception, the studio manager agrees to give her a job in the costume department. She eventually gets the opportunity to screen test, but it turns out disastrously – although in a nod to the actress behind the character the director calls her "a natural comedian." Sue's parents come out to California, and invest money with a shifty individual who swindles them out of their life savings. Sue and childhood friend Dave, who has also followed her, retrieve the money. Despite the unsuccessful film career, all turns out well.
Oh, Mabel Behave
Directed by Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Owen Moore, Billy Gilbert, Alice Davenport
Roles The Innkeeper's Daughter

Peachem cherche à profiter du fait qu'il détient l'hypothèque sur la maison de l'aubergiste pour gagner la main de sa fille. Mais celle-ci aime en fait Randolph Roanoke. Peachem va tenter de mettre Roanoke sur la touche avec l'aide de son homme de main Blaa Blaa.
Molly O'
Molly O' (1921)
, 1h20
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Anna Dodge, Albert Hackett, Eddie Gribbon, Jack Mulhall
Roles Molly O'Dair
Rating62% 3.1319353.1319353.1319353.1319353.131935
The Slim Princess, 50minutes
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Mabel Normand, Tully Marshall, Russ Powell, Harry Lorraine
Roles Kalora

The farcical plot revolves around a princess considered too slender for a fictional country, loosely based upon Turkey, in which obese women are prized. Princess Kalora finds herself reduced to shoving pillows into her garments to make her normal-sized frame presentable.
Mickey
Mickey (1918)
, 1h33
Directed by James Young, F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Minta Durfee, Wheeler Oakman, Laura La Varnie, Lew Cody
Roles Mickey
Rating61% 3.051633.051633.051633.051633.05163
Mickey (Normand), an orphan brought up by miners in a mining settlement, unexpectedly finds herself in a triangle through no fault of her own after being sent to New York City to live with her aunt.
A Perfect 36, 50minutes
Directed by Charles Giblyn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, Rod La Rocque, Flora Zabelle
Roles Mabel