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Mabel Normand Emerges as Spirited Screen Star
A vivid portrait of Mabel Normand's early life on screen. her bold stunts and emoting define a playful, chaotic persona. The piece details her rise from New York gag work to Biograph and Keystone, with stops at Vitagraph and Goldwyn, ending with her 1918 breakout film Mickey and a vibrant Culver City interview setting.
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Abel Normand
Mabel Normand
Culver City
Mickey
Hoyden
Kerplunk
Mabel
New York
James Montgomery Vlage
Charles Dana Gibson
Gibson
Kalem
Biograph
Mr. Gibson
Carnegie Hall
Fifty-seventh Street
West
Vitagraph
Betty
John Bunny
Flora Finch
Lillian Walker
Anita Stewart
Constance Talmadge
Mender
Nets
Mary Pickford
Bobby Harron
Mack Sennett
Bauman
Kessel
Keystone
K.bg
Keystone Studio
Owen Moore
Lew Cody
Fatty Arbuckle
Sennett Company
Charlie Chaplin
Kansas City
Goldwyn
Joan of Plattsburg
the Post
Melville W. Brown
al St. John
George Loane Tucker
Cheyenne
Shy Anne