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Showing posts with label Mabel Normand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mabel Normand. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

A Delicate Flower From Cinema's Silvery Silent Past

Mabel Normand

Fan Magazine Interviewer:  Won't you tell us, what are your favorite hobbies?


Mabel Normand:  I don't know...say anything you like but don't say I like to work.  That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch.  Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs.  And get drunk.




All images and so much more are here.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Funny Girl

She was a star by 1914.

She made her first picture in 1913, her last in 1971.

Her luxurious hair was long enough to sit on.

She was Chaplin's first leading lady.

In fact, at Mack Sennett's request, she coached Charlie Chaplin in the techniques of film acting.

She owned a kings ransom of jewels.

She was lent a private train car owned by Evelyn Walsh McLean for a cross-country trip.

She did a command performance for the Dowager Empress of China.

She met General George Pershing.

She danced with the Prince of Wales.

Her dearest friend was Mabel Normand.

She owned the first Rolls Royce in Hollywood.  It had a genuine silver radiator.

The Rolls was a gift from her husband.

She was a funny girl and she was Fatty's Girl.

She was:


Minta Durfee Arbuckle!