Those who followed – Roscoe Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin ... Most comediennes who followed Mabel Normand chose archetypes that suited male constructs: Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, and ...

"Mabel," often paired opposite Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and occasionally Chaplin himself. She began forming this character early on. After a brief career as a model for illustrators, Normand went ...

As one of the leading ladies during the silent film era, Mabel Normand had a natural knack for slapstick comedy and starred alongside Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle throughout the ...

A recent posting on Smithsonian‘s history blog Past Imperfect, The Skinny on the Fatty Arbuckle Trial ... He teamed with Mabel Normand in a series of domestic comedies that set a template ...

A hundred years ago, on the Saturday before Labor Day, Roscoe Arbuckle drove his plum ... s leading lady (and Sennett’s lover), Mabel Normand. The next year, Charlie Chaplin, still developing ...

In September 1921 the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle scandal ... Arbuckle films were pulled from theaters across the country. An Arbuckle-Mabel Normand two-reeler was yanked from the Manhattan ...

Yet Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ended up center stage ... early appearance was in 'A Noise from the Deep,' opposite Mabel Normand. The 10-minute short is notable for Normand's character lobbing ...

The basic facts are these: Over Labor Day weekend in 1921, silent-film comedian Roscoe ... and Mabel Normand. In 1916, he set up his own company, the Comique Film Corp. (which Arbuckle invariably ...

Mabel Normand (November 10 ... commercially successful films with Charles Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as ...