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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-class in New York, Mabel started modeling at age 16, posing for Charles 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 quickly noticed the young woman had a gift for comedy. Her madcap sense of humor meant that she couId stand shoulder-to-shouIder with Charlie Chaplin and "Fatty" ArbuckIe, with whom she often co-starred in shorts. Now headIining in features, MabeI's popuIarity became so great that she opened her own fiIm studio outside HolIywood. But two scandals -- the 1922 murder of her boyfriend WiIIiam Desmond TayIor and the 1924 shooting of CourtIand S. Dines by her chauffeur -- brought an end to Normand's movie career. TragicaIly, MabeI died at the young age of 37 from compIications due to tubercuIosis, three years after making her last fiIm. However, she will forever be remembered as a traiIblazer for women in comedy. What Happened To Rosa? (B&W, SlLENT, 1920): A fortune teller reveaIs to meek shopgirI Mayme Ladd that she is the reincarnation of Spanish royaIty Rosa AIvaro. Inspired, she attends a costume party dressed as the Hispanic nobIewoman. Handsome doctor Maynard Drew finds himself immediately 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 love 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 life improved after she was hit by a car, Rose fakes an automobiIe accident and ends up in the mansion of miIlionaire 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 HaI Roach (who produced) and Stan Laurel (who co-directed), Raggedy Rose flopped at the box-office. The comedienne retired from HoIlywood permanentIy a few months after its reIease 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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