“Mickey (1918)” by Roger Fristoe, tcm.com Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mabel: Hollywood’s First I Don’t Care Girl by Betty Harper Fussell This episode is a response to, and includes a brief excerpt from, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger. Today we’ll interrogate Hollywood Babylon’s claim that Normand was a cocaine addict, explore Normand’s involvement in various scandals which did more damage than drugs, and talk about the disease that led to her early death. But it wasn’t her association with Arbuckle that brought Normand’s career to an abrupt close and her life to an early end. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Ī frequent co-star of Roscoe Arbuckle’s, Mabel Normand was the definitive female screen comedienne of her generation.
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