SlapHappy Collection: Mabel Normand

One of silent film's first big female stars. She shared the screen with film legends Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. From the SlapHappy series episode: Comedienes.

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Comedy

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• Mabel
• Normand
• charile
• chaplin
• roscoe
• fatty
• arbuckle
• silent
• film
• comedy
• 1900s
• female
• actress

[ImmortalChaos]

I think they should say Chaplin is the male Normand. If it weren't for her, Chaplin would be a footnote

[horarwgt]

I stand by my statement that both were brought down by specific scandals of which they were entirely innocent. Arbuckle was one of the most prim, proper, scandal-free stars in Hollywood during his era. Can't say the same for Virginia Rapp, the part-time actress/full-time hooker he did NOT kill. And as I said, there has never been any proof that Normand was a drug addict. You simply equate everyone in showbiz with sin, which is unfair. People in other industries are hardly all angels.

[kovik62]

Mabel was born Nov. 8, 1892, and died Feb. 23, 1930. She was 37 years old, not 35.

[kovik62]

Mabel was never a suspect in the two murder scandals that tainted her later career. She was called upon as one of the primary witnesses. There never was any proof of drug addiction on her part; this has been exaggerated over the years by over-eager biographers. Scandal may have played an unfortunate part in her life, but it was not of her doing.

[creamofcardstv]

great pioneering actress

[teri2166]

Yes, agree. It interesting how our societies has not change much, with giving Credit where

it is due, whether woman, man or race.

She was the " Gentlewoman of nerve "

not Chaplin he came after.

Love,

T

[daughterrevolution]

Come on, horarwgt. Not entirely "innocent". They lived fast lives, drugs, alcohol, parties, fast cars, fast crowds. If you live that way for very long you are going to rue the day -- something ALWAYS catches up with you.

[4MaryAnna]

you really should quit going from video to video,telling people "you've rated theirs as awesome"or "I've given you five stars",and then you almost always try to sell yourself by saying:check out my site/silent film cards.You're just being a male ho,who probably never watched all the stuff you rated in the first place.

And here I though you Brits had better manners than that.I guess not.

[horarwgt]

Both Normand and Arbuckle were brought down by scandals of which they were entirely innocent -- but facts didn't matter to those guardians of public morality in the 20s and 30s who felt that filmmaking itself and comedy in particular was sinful. Was Mabel also a drug addict? Not according to those who knew her best and were interviewed after her tragic death from tuberculosis in February 1930.