Mabel Normand (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 5)
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Cinema and the Cinematography
When mabel arrived in los angeles for the first time in 19 12, hollywood as a centre for movie making was about as new as it could be. The fact film industry turned so many people from working class backgrounds into nouvau riche would be a key point of attack from would-be reformers during the first age of hollywood scandal a decade later. Mabel later recalled, we were golden lads and girls, and we made so much money so quickly that we didn't know what to do with it or ourselves, and didn't care.
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