Mabel Normand- Pioneer Filmaker

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Mon, 04/15/2024 - 11:00pm to Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:00am
Excerpts from Camera Man by Dana Stevens

An evening of non-fiction as Fortunato reads Chapter 13, "Mabel At The Wheel", from Dana Stevens'  biography of Buster Keaton, Camera Man 2022. Tonight's chapter focuses on the career of Mabel Normand, who was already an established star and director by the time Charlie Chaplin arrived in California. And while Buster Keaton was still a child prodigy in Vaudville. Stevens gives a detailed account of Normand and other pioneering women filmmakers in early Hollywood.

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