Mabel Normand
American actress (1893–1930) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893[1][2] – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films,[3] and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company,[4] the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company.[5] On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man.[6][7]
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Born | Amabel Ethelreid Normand (1893-11-09)November 9, 1893 New Brighton, New York, U.S. |
Died | February 23, 1930(1930-02-23) (aged 36) Monrovia, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles |
Other names | Mabel Normand-Cody, Muriel Fortescue |
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Years active | 1910–1927 |
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Normand's name was repeatedly linked with gun violence, including the 1922 murder of her friend, director William Desmond Taylor, and the non-fatal[8] 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines by Normand's chauffeur, Joe Kelly. After police interrogation, she was ruled out as a suspect in Taylor's murder. Normand suffered a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923, which led to a decline in her health, an early retirement from films in 1926 and her death in 1930 at age 36.[9][10]