Once upon a time, Mabel Normand was a movie star who preferred ice cream for breakfast, often with apricot brandy. It's doubtful she finished the sixth grade, but she read voraciously, a thesaurus ...

On 1915, San Diego's Panama–California Exposition in Balboa Park buzzed with excitement as entertainment and innovation unfolded.

EXCLUSIVE: Two Hollywood stars who found fame decades apart are being celebrated by Hollywood today. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is honoring the contributions of female filmmakers with a 14-part ...

The romance between silent comedy director Mack Sennett and his frequent star Mabel Normand was a mess, but they often tried to rekindle the fire, according to the musical “Mack & Mabel.” Likewise, ...

To cross genres and eras a bit, imagine the impish, doe-eyed beauty of Audrey Tautou in Amélie, mixed with the strong-willed zaniness of Lucille Ball, that constant catalyst for chaos. Add in the ...

In 2014, Nicks released the album 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, featuring songs written between 1969 and 1987. One song called “Mabel Normand” talks about the silent film star of the same name, ...

September 23, 1912: an important date in the history of cinema and the cultural heritage of America. Several weeks previous, in August, a large advertisement ran in New York City's entertainment trade ...

Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892– February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress, a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and noted as one of the film industry's first ...