Mabel Normand

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers

In the Wild West days of early filmmaking—before Hollywood hardened into an assembly-line...

Wonder Dogs!

While Rin Tin Tin may be credited as Hollywood’s first animal superstar, there was in fact a...

Mabel Normand (THE EXTRA GIRL and THE GUSHER)

In 1923, slapstick pioneer Mack Sennett conceived and produced a feature-length film designed to...

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