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Mabel Normand

Highest Rated: 100% Mickey (1918)

Lowest Rated: 88% Upstairs (1919)

Birthday: Nov 9, 1892

Birthplace: Staten Island, New York, USA

Widely considered to be the first major comedienne, and perhaps cinema's first comic star, actress Mabel Normand was rambunctious and non-conformist while exuding an ineffable charm and gentleness on screen. She rivaled her contemporaries Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as one of early Hollywood's top box office draws, while more often than not starring alongside both. After starting her film career with D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Company, she rose to stardom under the direction of Mack Sennett at his Keystone Studios, with whom she had a tumultuous romance. Because she never received her acting training in the theater - her entire education came on set - Normand was never prone to mugging for the camera like many of her silent film contemporaries, thus pioneering a more naturalistic form of acting. She became box office star with such Sennett film as "At Coney Island (1912) and "The Bangville Police" (1913), while making her mark alongside Arbuckle in "For the Love of Mabel" (1913), "Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life" (1915) and "Fatty and Mabel Adrift" (1915). During this time, Normand also developed into a capable director, and even orchestrated several early Chaplin efforts, including his first appearance as The Tramp in "Mabel's Strange Predicament" (1914). But in the latter half of the decade, Normand became increasingly unreliable due to late nights and drug abuse. In the early 1920s, she became embroiled in three separate scandals, effectively ending her career. Meanwhile, her health rapidly declined from tuberculosis and she died in 1930. Though remembered more for her involvement in the scandals of the early 1920s, Normand possessed both the talent and success to be ranked alongside the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of early cinema's finest comic talents.

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Highest rated movies

100% 25% Mickey
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90% 42% Tillie's Punctured Romance
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88% Upstairs
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Molly O'
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He Did and He Didn't
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Mabel's Wilful Way
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Charlie's Big Romance
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The Eternal Mother
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21% Mabel at the Wheel
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Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Funniest Man in the World Unknown (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Should Men Walk Home? The Girl Bandit (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anything Once! The Little Girl (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet Raggedy Rose Raggedy Rose (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet 50% The Extra Girl Sue Graham (Character) - 1923
No Score Yet No Score Yet Molly O' Molly O'Dair (Character) - 1921
88% No Score Yet Upstairs Unknown (Character) - 1919
100% 25% Mickey Mickey (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Venus Model Kitty O'Brien (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatty and Mabel Adrift Mabel (Character) - 1916
No Score Yet No Score Yet He Did and He Didn't The Doctor's Wife (Character) - 1916
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mabel's Wilful Way Mabel (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life Mabel (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition Mabel (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Little Band of Gold Mabel (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mabel Lost and Won Unknown (Character),
Director
- 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mabel's Blunder Mabel - the Office Girl (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1914
No Score Yet 32% Caught in a Cabaret Mabel (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1914
90% 42% Tillie's Punctured Romance The Other Girl (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 23% Mabel's Married Life Mabel (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 41% Mabel's Busy Day Mabel (Character),
Writer,
Director
- 1914
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Big Romance Mabel (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 21% Mabel at the Wheel Mabel (Character),
Director
- 1914
No Score Yet 38% His Trysting Place Mabel (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 25% Charlie the Actor Unknown (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 32% The Fatal Mallet Mabel (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 21% Gentlemen of Nerve Mabel (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 35% Mabel's Strange Predicament Mabel (Character),
Director
- 1914
No Score Yet No Score Yet Getting Acquainted Ambrose's Wife (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Speed Kings Mabel (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mabel's Dramatic Career Mabel, the Kitchen Maid (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life Mabel (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Muddy Romance Mabel (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mabel's New Hero Mabel (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet 20% The Bangville Police Della (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Little Hero Unknown (Character) - 1913
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Dash Through the Clouds Josephine (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Water Nymph Diving Venus (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet Katchem Kate Katchem Kate (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Eternal Mother Mary (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mender of Nets Unknown (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Awakening The Daughter (Character) - 1911
No Score Yet No Score Yet Italian Blood Unknown (Character) - 1911
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Making of a Man Unknown (Character) - 1911