Mabel Normand
Actor, Film actor
1892 – 1930
Who was Mabel Normand?
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 Charles Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" 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.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1892
New Brighton - Also known as
- Mabel Ethelreid Normand
- Muriel Fortescue
- Mabel Normand-Cody
- Parents
- Spouses
- Lew Cody
(1926/09/17 - 1930/02/23)
- Lew Cody
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- French Canadian
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 23, 1930
Monrovia - Resting place
- Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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