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Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation on August 25 Saturday, 7:30 p.m. see Mabel Normand in HEAD OVER HEELS (Goldwyn, 1922) Special thanks to Jenny Paxson and Rob Stone for organizing a night with Mabel! (and of course, Ben Model too!)

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/hohaugloc.htm

Aug 25 Mabel at the L of C (HEAD OVER HEELS)

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Jon Boorstin loves Mabel and he is working on his 4th historical fiction. This one is set in Edendale with Keystone as the background and of course Mabel is going to be a character, how could she not be, take a look at the picture of him I found at Los Angeles Review of Book, Mabel is definitely part of Jon’s life… If the writing he did in his essay, on Chaplin and who created the Tramp, is as good, his book is one I am looking forward to reading… (soon). (the link to his essay is at Looking for Mabel's in her Log)

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/17674005-chaplin-became-the-tramp

Charlie Chaplin by Hercht

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TCM SPOTLIGHT: Mack Sennett, September schedule
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/tcmschedule092012.htm
You will need a lot of chocolate cake…a whole month’s worth to view the glorious Mabel Normand in all her magnificence and her fantastic funny friends

MABEL NORMAND | Silent-film star deserved to be heard
Immortality achieved in black and white
There are references to a number of people I admire and I don’t mean just the silent personalities that Rudy Cecera has written about that ‘played’ with Mabel Normand but others, like Paul Gierucki; Rob Foster; Jon Boorstin; Tom Meyers of the Fort Lee Film Commission; people at TCM; Rob Stone & Jenny Paxson from the Library of Congress…What a wonderful circle of people that form around our Mabel! oh, yes did I include: Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and me!

Screen Comment | Movie news, reviews and interviews
http://screencomment.com
Rudy’s article is located at:
http://screencomment.com/2012/08/mabel-normand-silent-film-star-deserved-to-be-heard/#comment-1759

Mabel Normand 1915 Wash Day

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Did Mabel Normand sign with Samuel Goldwyn in 1916 or 1917? There is an article in Motography which reported it was done while she was making MICKEY, odd if true.

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/motography07211916.htm

Mabel going to work for Sam Goldwyn

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Mabel Normand loved the “sweet science”: Jack Dempsey and more. 2012 was the first time women could compete in the Olympics

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/mabelandherboxers.htm

When Doctors Disagree is a Samuel Goldwyn films that Mabel Normand made in 1919 which is sitting in a Belgium Archive in rather good condition but sadly a copy has not been sent back to the country of origin. A few years ago I posted about it and in today’s mail came a picture of Mabel on the train. I added to photo to the When Doctor’s Disagree page at Looking for Mabel . http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/whendoctorsdisagree.htm

Mabel on the train 1919 - When Doctors Disagree

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At Looking for Mabel is some information about Asa Keyes, D.A. found on the back of a picture of Mabel Normand and her attorney and the jailed District Attorney. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/asakeyesda.htm

Asa Keyes was District Attorney of Los Angeles County

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(OFF TOPIC) There was a book signing at Venice Beach last night and a few pictures are at Looking for Mabel. Delores Hanney & Patricia Nolan Stein plus Marc Wanamaker and Karie Bible were there (Karie will need to explain how she was found in a jail cell during the evening, herself!) All and all a lovely evening remembering Ray Bradbury.

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/sparc.htm

Ray Bradbury on the Venice Canals 1963

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The joy of research is finding new stuff! We never know everything, so we hunt. We now need to add another movie to Mabel’s filmography. Another Keystone comedy has been added to Mabel Normand film list, ON HIS WEDDING DAY. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/onhisweddingday.htm

In 1923 Mabel Normand was busy working on The Extra Girl, which will air on TCM Thursday (September 20) as part of the 100th Anniversary of Keystone (thanks to Paul and CineMuseum).
Betty Coss was Mabel secretary and over the last few years the photos from Betty’s collection have been auctioned and re-sold and auctioned again. One of the photos I find extremely interesting is the candid photo Betty took of Mabel with Dick Jones during a brake in filming The Extra Girl. I think of Dick as Mabel’s director. Expect for Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914); he directed all of her Sennett features including Mickey (MNFFC 1918) also screening on Thursday. So you can see for yourself their collaboration; their relationship was very close and the candid picture taken of his holding her, symbolizes this. Often in photos of the two of them, I find him with a soft rather indulgent smile as if she has just said or did something he found amusing and endearing.

candid Betty Coss photo of Mabel Normand and F. Richard Jones in 1923 working on The Extra Girl

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Dick is credited with directing over 45 films for Sennett, who had him named supervising director in 1918 after he had completed Mickey. Dick became responsible for superviding the editing, assigning actors, directors and writers. At Looking for Mabel is some general information about F. Richard (Dick) Jones. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/jones.htm

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Mabel Normand had an Indian while in Culver City working at the Goldwyn Studios, (before returning to Sennett) in 1921. What fun, the picture of her kick starting her bike was sent to us by Bruce Long. It was one I had not seen before so I just had to add it to the 2008 article I did on “Mabel, the motor cycle girl”. (it is at the bottom of the page) http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/mabelamotorcyclegirl.htm

“Hey Marilyn! Wanted to give you a quick heads up: We will have two version of MICKEY on the DVD – the standard seven reel version (with new titles and inter-titles) and an alternate version taken from 35mm nitrate materials and various other prints provided by your kind self, David Shepard and several others. Because of the amount of work and clean up time required for the “alternate” version, and the broadcast deadlines so tight, TCM will be airing the standard seven reel version and the alternate cut shall be exclusive to the DVD. However, we have provided you with a Special Thanks on both versions – it is the least we could do for all of your wonderful support and efforts to preserve Mabel’s memory.

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The dark horse for Thursday is THE EXTRA GIRL. Expect to be dazzled as it is simple gorgeous and different from any other version you have seen previously. You know I love to give the fans special surprises…

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Michael Ventura loves Mabel Normand and I love his writing about her and here he tells us about the importance of THE WATER NYMPH. The Austin Chronicle – Letters at 3AM is in Mabel’s Log

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19001934-the-water-nymph-review-by-michael-ventura

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Update on the Romaine Fielding data,

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/romainefielding.htm

Some 1915 photos of 'movie stars' from "Photoplay Magazine" have been added to the 2012 Album, I bet there are some you never heard of before, I was looking for a picture of Charles Avery, do you have one? (not a group photo of the Keystone Kops). To see the new ones at Looking-for-Mabel, check the recently added link:

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/recently-added

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Molly O’ in Screenland, January 1922… “Of course, Mabel cuts up a few didoes!” In REPRINT ARCHIVE at Looking-for-Mabel and here is the direct link
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/19221screenlandmolly.htm

Mabel Normand Feature Film Studio is for sale for only 3 ½ million…

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for more information

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19303809-mabel-s-studio-for-sale

On October 20 at Cinefamily Silent Film House Theater on Fairfax in Hollywood is a Birthday Party for Carla Laemmle and did you know that at 103 she is still working!

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19425492-carla-laemmle-birthday-at-103

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I posted a note about THE EXTRA GIRL (Sennett 1923) photos at Looking for Mabel that are on eBay http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19573054-the-extra-girl

Happy Halloween to all my fellow pumpkins, (this is a cover from a Spanish movie magazine in 1921)

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Mabel Normand was the muse for the graphic designer, Manuel Lopez of GV Designs. He has created by reworking some of the well known images of Mabel and using some nice effects a new way to see her; he posted them on FaceBook and has allowed me to post them at Looking for Mabel. I put them in their very own album; in hopes that over time perhaps he will open his Photoshop program and reformat other pictures and share them with us. So far he has done one Hal Roach’s Raggedy Rose and two from Samuel Goldwyn publicity.

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=14140788

Who is Audrey Munson? and why is she part of my Looking for Mabel?

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/audreymunson.htm

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It is time for chocolate cake.

Mabel Normand is a barrel of FUN

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I want to let you know that Thierry Georges Mathieu has completed issue number 23 of LA NAISSANCE DE CHARLOT – Keystone 1914. There is information on ordering it at Looking for Mabel.
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/thierrygmathieuno23.htm

Thierry Mathieu - LA NAISSANCE DE CHARLOT # 24

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This image of Mabel Normand and cropped it into a little oval, it you need a high resolution scan of the original, let me know. This is her during her early Keystone era;, I also have added a few other pictures, look at “recently added”.
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=169853853

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Happy Thanksgiving, this is not a production still but a candid picture of Mabel Normand and George Nichols eating up the props on the set of “The Extra Girl” (Sennett 1923)

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An article regarding the diary which Mary Miles Minter began just a few days after the death of William Desmond Taylor found in the Los Angeles Herald August 14, 1923 was sent to us by Bruce Long...I have posted it at:

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1923mmmloveofwdt.htm

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CHAPLIN the Broadway musical will close January 6, 2013 - - - story at Looking-for-Mabel

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/20671273-chaplin-will-close-

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It is the joyful time of the year and I want to add my personal wishes for a wonderful season

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Thomas Ince - Hollywood's Independent Pioneer book by BRIAN TAVES signing at CCHS http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/tomincebooktaves2012.htm

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