This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. Today is the birthday of Mabel Normand (1892-1930), the godmother of American comedy.  Not an actress or performer per se at [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:44AM on November 9, 2012