Looking for Mabel Normand

Madcap Mabel Normand

2009 Los Angeles Magazine

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Mabel Normand was cinema’s first great clown—a rowdy, gentle genius who captivated Mack Sennett and inspired Chaplin’s Tramp

Los Angeles magazine, June 2009

 

1923 HOT DOG

1910 March 26, The Moving Picture World

"MOVING PICTURE GODS AND GODDESSES."

 

1914 October Motion Picture Magazine

100 greatest film stars of 1914 as voted by the readers of

Motion Picture Magazine

 

1919 July Motion Picture Classic

MOTOR-CYCLE MABEL

Motion Picture Classic

July 1919, page 88

 

1918 March 19 Chewing Gum

1931 Harry Reichenbach

1930 March 3 Chester Times PA

1929 JAN 20 LA TIMES

1924 July 23 Press Release

 

 JULY 23, 1924, Mack Sennett, producer of Sennett

Comedies, who returned yesterday from a fishing trip

 in the Santa Barbara channel, issued the following

statement relative to the future relations of Mabel

Normand and his company:

 

 

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1927 05 01 Party at Mabel's

1925 Feb 25 Harry Carr's Page

Who's the Best Actor

(Mabel, of course!)

1924 Movie Times

1927 Mar 22 Moving Picture Stories

MOVING PICTURE STORIES

"Weekly Letter From The Town

Where the Movies Are Made"

 

 

Mabel is Ill and in Hospital

 

1913 FEB 28 LA TIMES NEW CONDUCTOR

 

1916 MAY FILM FUN

1919 APRIL PICTURE-PLAY

1931 May 25 Oakland Tribune

Have you read what Lew Cody thought about his marriage to Mabel Normand?  Well “according to Lew Cody”, is part of an article a friend emailed me that he found in the Oakland Tribune, May 25, 1931, page 5.

 

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1930 April 6 LA Times

 

ROMPING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD

Grace Kingsley

"My Pal's dead"

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1918 Nov Motion Picture Magazine

1935 San Antonio Light Sept. 29

FILM VETERAN PICKS BEAUTIES

(HARRY CAREY )

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1913 December 13 The Moving Picture World

December 13, 1913

Miss Normand Director

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1930 May Photoplay Mabel Says Good-Bye

1918 Picture-Play February

The Girl on the Cover

by

Norbert Lisk

1917 March 11

Los Angeles Times, Grace Kingsley

 

"Mabel's Pink Thoughts"

 

1930 August (AP) Trust Fund

Mabel Normand had set up a $50,000 Trust Fund

in 1922 for her family

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1916 August 14, Film for Front

1916 article of the gift Mabel

made for the Front

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1918 June Motion Picture Magazine

1918 June Motion Picture Magazine, page 106

"The Muses of Movie-Land"

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1935 Practical Joker

1918 December 1 Celebrated Photoplayers

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TO GALE IMAGES

1913 LA TIMES They Really Have Voices

THE INAUGURAL BALL

OF THE "PHOTOPLAYERS CLUB

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1914 LA TIMES Car Race

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1918 Liberty Bonds

1918 THE PHOTO-PLAY WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1960 Golden Era of Comedy

California Bank promotional collection of photos done in the 1960s,

 

places our Mabel with the pantheon of the greats, right were she belongs.

 

 

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1982 THE MOVIE #107

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