Mabel Normand (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 5)
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The Extra Girl and Mabel
In 19 23, she starred in the senate film the extra girl which had mabel squaring off versus a real life lyon. In 19 24, after a boozy afternoon party involving mabel, actress edna previance, and millionaire cortland dines, dynes was shot by mabel's driver joe kelly. This scandal arguably did as much to bring mabel's career to an end as her partying, her sickness or her association with william desmond taylor. After susanna, mabel went to europe and new york, where she hid out from the glare of the media but wasn't gone for that long.
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