Dark-haired, big-eyed model who joined Biograph at the age of 16 and, following a brief stint at Vitagraph, was taken under the wing (personally and professionally) of director Mack Sennett. Normand emerged as one of the finest comediennes of the silent era, as well as a capable director of short films--she orchestrated several early Chaplin efforts, including "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914),…
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