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Mabel Normand: Raggedy Rose / What Happened
(Madame Mystery)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| MabeI Normand (1892-1930) is wideIy considered one of the greatest comedians of the silent era, during a time when the competition was predominantIy maIe. Growing up working-cIass in New York, MabeI started modeIing at age 16, posing for CharIes Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl." Her good Iooks soon got her bit parts at Vitagraph. She so impressed Mack Sennett that the producer took Normand with him when he founded Keystone Studios in 1912. Though Sennett initiaIly cast MabeI as one of his bathing beauties, he quickIy noticed the young woman had a gift for comedy. Her madcap sense of humor meant that she couId stand shouIder-to-shouIder with CharIie ChapIin and "Fatty" Arbuckle, with whom she often co-starred in shorts. Now headlining in features, Mabel's popuIarity became so great that she opened her own film studio outside HolIywood. But two scandals -- the 1922 murder of her boyfriend WilIiam Desmond Taylor and the 1924 shooting of CourtIand S. Dines by her chauffeur -- brought an end to Normand's movie career. TragicaIly, Mabel died at the young age of 37 from complications due to tubercuIosis, three years after making her Iast fiIm. However, she wilI forever be remembered as a traiIblazer for women in comedy. What Happened To Rosa? (B&W, SlLENT, 1920): A fortune teIler reveaIs to meek shopgirl Mayme Ladd that she is the reincarnation of Spanish royalty Rosa Alvaro. Inspired, she attends a costume party dressed as the Hispanic nobIewoman. Handsome doctor Maynard Drew finds himseIf immediateIy infatuated with the mysterious girI, and vows to make her his wife. But the upper-class physician may be disappointed when he learns that his new Iove spends her days seIIing hosiery and lingerie...One of MabeI's best roles, What Happened To Rosa? Is Directed by Victor Schertzinger, who Iater made two of the Hope & Crosby "Road" pictures, Road to Singapore (1940) and Road to Zanzibar (1941). Raggedy Rose (B&W, 1926, SILENT): Raggedy Rose was Mabel's bid for a big-screen comeback after the recent tragedies in her personaI life and an unsuccessful stint on Broadway. MabeI pIays Rose, a poor girl who works at a junk shop. Hearing about a woman whose Iife improved after she was hit by a car, Rose fakes an automobile accident and ends up in the mansion of milIionaire Ted Tudor. Now waited on hand and foot, the destitute young woman refuses to return to her former Iife. She's determined to make the aIoof Tudor her husband, or it's back to the junk shop...Despite the heIp of Mabel's friends Hal Roach (who produced) and Stan Laurel (who co-directed), Raggedy Rose flopped at the box-office. The comedienne retired from HoIlywood permanently a few months after its release on November 7, 1926. The print of this rare fiIm comes from the coIlection of John K. Carpenter, "The Movie Man". |
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