Trivia

Normand was writing her own films by 1912 and directing them by 1914, making her one of the first women to do so.

She is credited with throwing cinema's first custard pie in the face. The film is A Noise from the Deep (1913) and the victim was Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.

The Keystone Cops debuted in "Bangville Police" a Mabel Normand short. She is also 'the girl' tied to the railroad tracks, a famous image from silent film.

Chaplin, Sennett and Minta Durfee all agreed in their writings that Mabel was the reason Charlie Chaplin was signed and kept on at Keystone.

She is believed to be the first actress to receive a pie in the face on film. It was delivered by Ford Sterling.

Portrayed by Marisa Tomei in Chaplin (1992).

Along with Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressler, Normand was one of the stars in the first comedic feature film "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914).

Stevie Nicks wrote a song called "Mabel Normand" claiming Normand's 'death from cocaine' inspired her to get clean in the 1980s. The Mabel Normand estate maintains Normand never took cocaine or any other drugs.

Portrayed by Bernadette Peters in the Broadway musical "Mack and Mabel" (1974). Book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.

Anita Loos, claims in her 1966 autobiography "A Girl Like I," wrote that during her cocaine-induced frenzies, Mabel would write long, rambling letters to people about nothing in particular. At the time of her death, Mabel's attending physician was Loos' brother, Clifford. She begged Clifford to allow her to die at home, but she was too weak to be moved. A portable screen was brought in from her bedroom and, thinking she was in her own bed, she died in peace. However it was proven Clifford never attended Normand. Loos also claimed alternatively that Normand was illiterate; which is easily disproven.

Portrayed by Penelope Lagos in the first film about her life, Madcap Mabel (2010).

Mabel Normand was billed as "Keystone Mabel" on some publicity posters for early Keystone comedies.

Mabel was named Favorite Female Comedian in a "Variety" readers pole in 1915.

Interred at Calvary Cemetery, in Boyle Heights, California (USA).

Is depicted in the film Return to Babylon (2013) by actress Morganne.

When she passed away in 1930, her honorary pallbearers included D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, Charles Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn, Roscoe ("Fatty ") Arbuckle, Sid Grauman, Ford Sterling, Paul Bern and Eugene Pallette.

Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. (1999)