Mabel Normand

Timothy Dean Lefler is an author, artist, teacher and co-designer of The Beach Boys Historic Monument in Hawthorne, California. He lives in Rancho Cucamonga.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments deletevi

Preface

Introduction

 1 • Hello Mabel

 2 • Over the Garden Wall

 3 • Staten Island Girl

 4 • Venus Model

 5 • The Griffith Touch

 6 • Hide and Seek

 7 • Keystone Mabel

 8 • The Fun Factory

 9 • Mabel at the Wheel

10 • Tillie

11 • Ice Cream for Breakfast

12 • Mabel in Close Up

13 • The Clock Strikes 12

14 • New Woman

15 • Mabel Inc.

16 • Goldwyn Girl

17 • Mickey

18 • Mabelescent

19 • Back to Mack

20 • Gates of Babylon

21 • Different Names

22 • Her Story

23 • The Edge of Murder

24 • Fatal Tales

25 • Sail Away

26 • To Live Through Pain

27 • Final Frames

28 • A Tender Goodbye

Epilogue

Appendix A: Filmography

Appendix B: Last Will and Testament of Mabel Normand

Appendix C: Transcript of Coroner’s Inquest, William Desmond Taylor Murder Case, February 4, 1922

Appendix D: Transcript of Mabel Normand’s Testimony at Arraignment of Horace Greer, aka Joseph Kelly, January 22, 1924, Los Angeles Courthouse

Appendix E: How to Be a Comedienne

Appendix F: Mabel’s Clothes and Possessions

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index