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Funny lady: Mabel Normand was cinema's first great clown--a rowdy, gentle genius who captivated Mack Sennett and inspired Chaplin's Tramp.(BUZZ: The Arts)
Los Angeles Magazine
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June 1, 2009|
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Few can measure the scope of their own achievement. Mabel Normand, who was not only the screen's first major comedienne but also cinema's first comic star, gave it a good shot when she said, "I had no one to tell me what to do.... I had no precedent, nothing to imitate.... I had to do something that nobody had ever done before."
Three men who knew the truth of those words were honorary pallbearers at her funeral in 1930: D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, and Mack Sennett. When Mabel Normand worked on Griffith's Biograph lot in 1910, ...
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