Above: Mabel Normand (1892 - 1930)
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (Dir. Mack Sennett, starring Charles Chaplin, Marie
Dressler, and Mabel Normand) topped the 1914 box office as the most popular comedy of the year.
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Mack Sennett cranked out dozens of Keystone comedies in 1914, but Tillie remains one of his comedy troupe's most beloved works.
Chaplin's co-star, Mabel Normand, began her career in pictures as an artist's model for Charles Dana Gibson. She worked briefly for D.W. Griffith's Biograph studio in 1911, before meeting Mack Sennett at a party and beginning what Wikipedia calls a "topsy-turvy" relationship with him.
Sennett founded Keystone studios in 1912.
Sennett often gave full creative rein to Mabel, who became one of the film industry's first female screenwriters and directors. In the summer of 1914 she began writing and directing Keystone comedies herself, including Mabel's Stormy Love Affair, Won in a Closet and Mabel's Blunder -- one of her earliest hits.
Sennett founded Keystone studios in 1912.
Sennett often gave full creative rein to Mabel, who became one of the film industry's first female screenwriters and directors. In the summer of 1914 she began writing and directing Keystone comedies herself, including Mabel's Stormy Love Affair, Won in a Closet and Mabel's Blunder -- one of her earliest hits.
Above: Normand, Chaplin and Dresser in a classic restaurant scene from Tillie's Punctured Romance.
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