Mabel Ethelreid Normand Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892 – May 8, 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 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.
Full Name
Mabel Ethelreid Normand
Net Worth
$3 Million
Date Of Birth
November 10, 1892
Died
1930-02-23
Death Cause
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Place Of Birth
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, USA
Height
5' 1" (1.55 m)
Occupation
Actress, director, screenwriter, producer
Profession
Actress, Director, Writer
Nationality
American
Spouse
Lew Cody
Nicknames
Mabel Normand, Normand, Mabel
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Big eyes and a big smile; some magazines compared her to a goldfish
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Quote
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[In an interview when a "family magazine", when asked what her hobbies were] I don't know. Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk. NOTE: In fact, she and Pickford were actually good friends.
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Fact
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Mabel Normand was billed as "Keystone Mabel" on some publicity posters for early Keystone comedies.
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Mabel was named Favorite Female Comedian in a "Variety" readers pole in 1915.
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She is believed to be the first actress to receive a pie in the face on film. It was delivered by Ford Sterling.
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Along with Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressler, Normand was one of the stars in the first comedic feature film "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914).
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The Keystone Cops debuted in "Bangville Police" a Mabel Normand short. She is also 'the girl' tied to the railroad tracks, a famous image from silent film.
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Normand was writing her own films by 1912 and directing them by 1914, making her one of the first women to do so.
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Stevie Nicks wrote a song called "Mabel Normand" claiming Normand's 'death from cocaine' inspired her to get clean in the 1980s. The Mabel Normand estate maintains Normand never took cocaine or any other drugs.
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Chaplin, Sennett and Minta Durfee all agreed in their writings that Mabel was the reason Charlie Chaplin was signed and kept on at Keystone.
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Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]
Anita Loos, claims in her 1966 autobiography "A Girl Like I," wrote that during her cocaine-induced frenzies, Mabel would write long, rambling letters to people about nothing in particular. At the time of her death, Mabel's attending physician was Loos' brother, Clifford. She begged Clifford to allow her to die at home, but she was too weak to be moved. A portable screen was brought in from her bedroom and, thinking she was in her own bed, she died in peace. However it was proven Clifford never attended Normand. Loos also claimed alternatively that Normand was illiterate; which is easily disproven.
