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Normand's intensely beguiling lead performance in the 1911 dramatic short film Her Awakening, directed by D. W. Griffith, drew her attention and led to her meeting director Mack Sennett while at Griffith's Biograph Company. The two subsequently embarked on a chaotic relationship.
The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand (transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the musical), who became one of his biggest stars.
Mabel Normand starred in at least one hundred and sixty-seven film shorts and twenty-three full-length features, mainly for Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company, and was one of the earliest silent actors to function as her own director.
May 15, 2020 · In 1918, Normand reportedly took a surprise trip to the love nest she and Mack Sennett shared—only to be greeted with a chilling sight. Sennett and the new starlet on set, Mae Busch, were naked as the day they were born, and they weren’t sitting around playing pinochle.
From her first shorts onward she worked with Ford Sterling, Ford Mace and Mack Sennett. As inventive and important as any of these early comedians she had a hand in many firsts, including the first thrown pie gag with 1913’s “A Noise from the Deep”. It was during her short, “The Bangville Police” that the legendary Keystone Kops were formed.
In 1916, Normand founded her production company, Mabel Normand Feature Film Company, in partnership with Mack Sennett. This venture allowed her even greater creative control over her projects, solidifying her status as a powerful force within the film industry.
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While at Biograph, Normand met director Mack Sennett, who would become one of the most important people in her life, both personally and professionally. In 1912 she left Biograph with Sennett to join his new Keystone Film Company in California .
