Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand (November 9, 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'>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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Mabel Normand
Alias (AKA)
Mabel Normand-Cody
Normand Mabel Ethelreid
Birth dateNovember 09, 1892
Birth nameMabel Ethelreid Normand
Birth place
New Brighton Staten Island
cause of death
Tuberculosis
Date of deathFebruary 23, 1930
Place of death
Monrovia California
Resting place
Calvary Cemetery East Los Angeles

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