Mabel Normand — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸
Mabel Normand is all that the leading lady of a busy motion picture company is supposed to be and a good bit more.
For besides being pretty and a real decoration to whatever picture she plays in she is also athletic and daring and provides the spectators of the silent comedy many a thrill in her performances. As a swimmer, she has scored her biggest successes, this accomplishment being her best beloved and best performed.
The Vitagraph company gave Miss Normand her initial lessons in the art of picture acting and her extensive work there gave herself and others promise of great future development.
Then she found her way to the Biograph studio where she climbed up and onward and graduated from there to the position of leading lady with the Keystone company.
They like her, do the people, and Miss Normand reciprocates by continuing to please, for she likes being liked.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, April 1913