“Say anything you like, but don’t say that 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.”
-Mabel Normand & her Indian motorcycle (1920, via looking-for-mabel.webs.com)
Mabel Normand was a wonderful silent film actress & comedienne, as well as one of Hollywood’s first female producers, screenwriters, and directors (Normand wrote and directed for Charlie Chaplin, in addition to owning her own movie studio & production company).
A clip of some of her work can be seen on youtube here.
