Actress Mabel Normand (1894-1930) gets her ear pulled by a possessive father in this scene from the 1923 film 'The Extra Girl'. Ralph Graves (1901-1977) sits next to her on the sofa.

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to By Michael Ventura, Fri., March 23, 2012 ...

Letters at 3AM: A Century Since 'The Water Nymph' On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand ...

Wasn’t Mabel Normand indirectly involved in a notorious, unsolved Hollywood murder? The murder was of William Desmond Taylor, a famous director back in those days. He was a very learned man. And he ...

Mabel Normand. By Laura Weinert | Last Updated: March 25, 2013. To cross genres and eras a bit, imagine the impish, doe-eyed beauty of Audrey Tautou in Amélie, mixed with the ...

Legendary film producer Mack Sennett was a survivor, a strapping, cigar-chomping Irishman whose wildly popular silent shorts provided a training ground for some of Hollywood’s most illustrious ...

Mabel Normand lives -- at least in this revised version of "Mack and Mabel," Jerry Herman's musical that's been one of the longest-running shoulda-beens in Broadway history. But it takes more than ...

“YOU MIGHT say everything that ever happened in pictures, good and bad, happened to Mabel first. She had the first ride, and she paid.” That is from the new book “Mabel and Me: A … ...

The romance between silent comedy director Mack Sennett and his frequent star Mabel Normand was a mess, but they often tried to rekindle the fire, according to the musical “Mack & Mabel ...

Mabel Normand was a phenom in her own right, seen by many as the leading lady of silent films themselves, and long revered as the first woman to own a studio and production company.