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Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films.
Early career with Mack Sennett
Born Mabel Ethelreid Normand in Staten Island, New York, before she entered films in 1909 Normand worked as an artist's model, which included posing for postcards illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl image. She met director Mack Sennett and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him. Her first films portrayed her as a bathing beauty but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy, and became a star of Sennett's short films. She appeared regularly with Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin, and wrote and directed some of Chaplin's early films. She is frequently credited with being the first person to throw a cream pie on film, and remains universally acclaimed as silent cinema's most prominent comedienne. She directed films and made full-length features before either Arbuckle or Chaplin.
In 1914 she starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance. She developed into a major film star and as her relationship with Sennett came to an end she signed a contract in 1918 with Samuel Goldwyn and opened her own film studio in Culver City.
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If I was around in the 1910s, I think Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance are two people I'd've liked to be friends with.
jenthesuperone (Jen Geffros) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:24:41 -0000
If I was around in the 1910s, I think Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance are two people I'd've liked to be friends with.
According to IMDb, Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand only made 12 movies together. Huh. I thought they did more than that.
jenthesuperone (Jen Geffros) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:03:50 -0000
According to IMDb, Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand only made 12 movies together. Huh. I thought they did more than that.
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