
Mabel Normand (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 5)
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Mabel's Films for Goldwin
Micky became the highest grossing film of 19 18, easily outdoing features directed by the likes of d w. Griffith and charlie chaplin. Goldwin cannily cast mabel in her usual slapstick romances while off screen he worked to give her a more sophisticated, cosmopolitan image. But it was not an entirely happy partnership. Mabel's last films for goldwin included a farce called what happened to rosa,. In which she played a duel roll, and head over heels, a broadway satire where she played an italian acrobat. She gave birth to a still born child in her apartment at seventh and vermont in what is now the korea town
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