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 ...
As one of the leading ladies during the silent film era, Mabel Normand had a natural knack for slapstick comedy and starred alongside Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle throughout the 1910s ...