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In 1985, Stevie Nicks sang about Normand and cocaine use. No one from Normand’s era has ever reputably claimed to witness her using or buying drugs. The linking of Normand and Taylor was...
Mabel Normand was a star at age 16 and dead at 37, and the life she lived between those short, brutal years careened between truly glamorous and utterly tragic. From the heady vapors of her fame to the notorious end of her career, here are facts about forgotten Hollywood icon Mabel Normand.
Author Robert Giroux claims that Taylor was deeply in love with Normand, who had originally approached him for help in dealing with an alleged cocaine dependency, and that Taylor met with federal prosecutors shortly before his death with an offer to assist them in filing charges against her drug dealers, theorizing that this meeting caused the ...
The musical Mack and Mabel explicitly shows Normand having a drug addiction (‘MABEL sniffs the powder. She closes her eyes as it starts to affect her’) which is implicitly blamed for her early death (Stewart and Herman Citation [1974] 2015 ).
The silent screen’s most famous comedienne, Mabel Normand, was cocaine-dependent during some of her career but was rumored to have been clean by the time of her death in 1931.
Normand was cleared as a suspect by police, but rumors soon circulated that Desmond had been to “dope” parties and was part of the local drug scene.
She starred in 167 film shorts and 23 full-length features. She was involved in three major Hollywood scandals. She was an alcoholic, and apocryphal stories of her cocaine usage abound in Hollywood lore. And she died of tuberculosis at age 37. But in Mabel Normand’s short life, there were a lot of career firsts.
