Mabel Normand

AKA:

Madcap Mabel

Birth Name:

Amabel Ethelreid Normand

Birth Date:

November 9, 1893

Birth Place:

New Brighton, New York

Death Date:

February 23, 1930)

Place of Death:

Pottenger Sanatorium, Monrovia, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Tuberculosis

Cemetery Name:

Calvary Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Show Business

Associates:

Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. 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. Normand's name was repeatedly linked with gun violence, including the 1922 murder of her friend, director William Desmond Taylor, and the non-fatal 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines by Normand's chauffeur, Joe Kelly. While she was the last person to see Taylor alive, after police interrogation she was ruled out as a suspect in Taylor's murder. Normand was a heavy smoker who suffered from lung cancer and 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.

Fun Facts

At the height of her fame as an actress, Mabel Normand was making $3,500 per week (a whooping $57,000 in today’s money).

Her father died two days before Mabel’s passing. She never knew.

When Walt Disney asked Chaplin’s input on what Snow White should look like, Chaplin described her as having dark hair and big dark eyes, just like Mabel Normand.

Her dying wish was to hear the confession from the murderer of William Desmond Taylor.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Calvary Cemetery

4201 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, California, 90023

USA

North America

Map:

Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California

Grave Location:

Main Mausoleum, Block 303, Crypt B-1

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery from Downey Blvd, take and immediate left. Follow the road past 3 smaller mausoleums on your left until you come to the large, Main Mausoleum in Section Q. As you walk through the main entrance walk towards the back and take the stairs up to the 2nd floor. The great actress and director Mabel Normand can be found about thirty feet from the stairwell in the main hallway on your left.

Grave Location GPS

34.02829221139436, -118.17858341662117

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FAQ's

Mabel Normand was born on November 9, 1893.

Mabel Normand was born in New Brighton, New York.

Mabel Normand died on February 23, 1930).

Mabel Normand died in Pottenger Sanatorium, Monrovia, California.

Mabel Normand was 36.

The cause of death was Tuberculosis.

Mabel Normand's grave is in Calvary Cemetery

Videos Featuring Mabel Normand:

The Sad & Tragic Life of Mabel Normand Silent Movie Queen

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Mabel Normand "Mysteries and Scandals" documentary

AT CONEY ISLAND (1912) - Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling

Mabel Normand biography

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