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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Legendary film producer Mack Sennett was a survivor, a strapping, cigar-chomping Irishman whose wildly popular silent shorts provided a training ground for some of Hollywood’s most illustrious film ...

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 ...

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 ...