Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Mabel Normand as “Mabel, Sweet & Lovely” and Ford Sterling as the moustache-twirling “Villainous Rival” in Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913, dir. Mack Sennett) (via)

Mabel Normand as “Mabel, Sweet & Lovely” and Ford Sterling as the moustache-twirling “Villainous Rival” in Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913, dir. Mack Sennett) (via)

Fatty Arbuckle & Mabel Normand in He Did and He Didn’t (1916, dir. Fatty Arbucke) (via A World of Movies: 70 years of Film History)

Fatty Arbuckle & Mabel Normand in He Did and He Didn’t (1916, dir. Fatty Arbucke) (via A World of Movies: 70 years of Film History)

Fatty Arbuckle & Mabel Normand in He Did and He Didn’t (1916, dir. Fatty Arbucke) (via A World of Movies: 70 years of Film History)

Fatty Arbuckle & Mabel Normand in He Did and He Didn’t (1916, dir. Fatty Arbucke) (via A World of Movies: 70 years of Film History)

“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 (here with her Indian motorcycle circa 1920, via Looking for Mabel Normand) 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. Normand and Mary Pickford were actually good friends as well. A clip of some of her work can be seen on youtube here.

“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 (here with her Indian motorcycle circa 1920, via Looking for Mabel Normand)

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. Normand and Mary Pickford were actually good friends as well.

A clip of some of her work can be seen on youtube here.