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2 unusual facts about Mabel


Billie Ritchie

Variations on Ritchie's "tramp" and "drunk" personae - which Ritchie had developed before and during his Karno years- were introduced to film audiences by Charlie Chaplin in such shorts as the Lehrman-directed Kid Auto Races at Venice (February 7, 1914) and Mabel's Strange Predicament (February 9, 1914).

Mabel's Strange Predicament

The Tramp was first presented to the public in Chaplin's second film Kid Auto Races at Venice (released February 7, 1914) though Mabel's Strange Predicament, his third film in order of release, (released February 9, 1914) was produced a few days before.


Alexandra Isles

Isles was born in Uppsala, Sweden to Mabel Wilson Wright and Count Carl Adam Moltke, son of Carl Moltke.

Alister Clark

According to Tommy Garnett, the best known of Clark’s daffodils is probably ‘Mabel Taylor’, still in commerce and used for breeding.

B. J. Palmer

The house that B.J. and Mabel Palmer lived in is located at 808 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa.

Barbara Jo Allen

In 1958, she appeared as Mabel, the boss of the flight attendants, in Jeannie Carson's syndicated version of her situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! The program aired only six episodes in syndication.

Basil Harwood

During this time, he met and married Mabel Ada Jennings (the daughter of George Jennings) (who had become a pupil of his in 1896) at All Souls St. Marylebone, London (27 December 1899).

Charles J. Ross

Ross married actress Ada Towne (known professionally as Mabel Fenton) on June 9, 1887, during a stopover at Deadwood, South Dakota amidst a vaudeville tour of the American West.

Chick Webb

In attendance was Sally Webb, Chick's widow, his mother Marie Webb, his sister Mabel Porter, Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, Ella Fitzgerald and boxing champion Joe Louis.

David J. Farrar

Born in London, England in 1921, Farrar was the elder son of Donald Frederic Farrar (1897–1982), a former Royal Flying Corps supply pilot, and Mabel Margaret Farrar, née Hadgraft (1896–1985), and brother of RAF airman and poet James Farrar.

Dugald Campbell Patterson

On February 7, 1891 in Victoria, British Columbia, he married Frances Mabel Webb, a granddaughter of Thomas Webb, founder of Thomas Webb & Sons makers of fine English glass.

Edmund Lamb

Lamb and his wife Mabel née Winkworth (1862–1941), daughter of a Manchester cotton mill owner, had one child, Winifred Lamb (1894–1963).

Edna Purviance

She was portrayed by Penelope Ann Miller in the film Chaplin, and more recently by Katie Maguire in the film Madcap Mabel (2009).

Elizabeth Selden Rogers

Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa

During this time, she participated in two operatic premieres, creating the title role in Alfred Mellon's Victorine on 19 December 1859, and the role of Mabel in George Alexander Macfarren's opera Helvellyn on 5 November 1864.

Frederick Richard Simms

Frederick Richard Simms' first wife was Austrian, his second, married 1910, was Mabel Louise, daughter of cotton merchant Joseph Worsley and they had two daughters, one of which was Rosemary Mabel who married the Artist Dennis Ramsay.

Here I Am, Here I Stay

The third Haley recording made for the film, "Whoa Mabel", has not surfaced as of 2011 (like the other two it is not the same recording as released by Haley on Decca Records).

Hey, Jeannie!

Vera Vague (also known as Barbara Jo Allen) portrayed Mabel, the boss of the flight attendants.

Hispanic American naming customs

For example, Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias is the daughter of Carlos Florencio Oreiro Poggio and Mabel Cristina Iglesias Bourié.

Holland S. Duell

On September 29, 1904, he married Mabel Halliwell (born 1882), and they had five children; among them Charles Halliwell Duell (born 1905), one of the founders of the Duell, Sloan and Pearce publishing house.

If Winter Comes

Set in the English village Penny Green in 1939, the film focuses on Mark Sabre, an author and publisher who is unhappily married to Mabel, a humorless and cold woman who usually spends her days gossiping with the townspeople.

John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse

Born the son of Sir Harold Fieldhouse, who had been secretary of the National Assistance Board, and Mabel Elaine Fieldhouse (née Elliott), Fieldhouse was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

Jungleland USA

Mabel Stark, the "lady lion tamer", was featured in these shows; she also doubled for Mae West in the lion-taming scenes in the 1933 film I'm No Angel.

Lynda Baron

In that series she played Auntie Mabel, an everyday woman living in a bungalow, set in Denham.

Mabel Loomis Todd

Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10, 1856 – October 14, 1932) was an American editor and writer, and the wife of the astronomer David Peck Todd.

Mabel Lost and Won

Mabel Lost and Won is a 1915 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Owen Moore.

Mabel Miller

Dame Mabel Miller died on 30 December 1978, in a New Town, Tasmania nursing home, aged 72, from undisclosed causes, and was cremated.

Mabel Scott

Mabel is probably remembered more for her 1948 hits Elevator Boogie and Boogie Woogie Santa Claus than for her 1949-1951 marriage to the featured piano player of Elevator Boogie, Charles Brown of Johnny Moore's Three Blazers.

Marion Terry

In 1879 she also appeared as Mabel in Duty by James Albert and the title role in Gretchen by Gilbert.

Marjorie Lewty

Marjorie Lobb was born on 8 April 1906 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK, daughter of James, a sailor in the Merchant Navy, and Mabel, was the manager of the Queen's Cinema in Liverpool.

Maud of Gloucester, Countess of Chester

Maud of Gloucester, Countess of Chester (died 29 July 1189), also known as Matilda, was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and the daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England and Mabel, daughter of Robert fitz Hamon.

Monk Gibbon

In 1928, he married Mabel Dingwall, daughter of Walter Molyneux Dingwall of Bonchurch and Mabel Sophia Spender, a daughter of Edward Spender of Bath, Somerset.

Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco

Other significant contributions included collections bequeathed by Ricardo Braun Menéndez (1967), Fiat Concord (1970), Pedro San Martín (1975), Max von Buch (1978), Mario Hirsch (1983), María Alcorta de Waldorp (1997), the Angli family (2002), and from the estates of Mabel and María Castellano Fotheringham.

Nicholas Bagenal

Mabel and Mary are major characters in the play Making History by Brian Friel; their father and brother Henry are frequently referred to but do not appear on stage.

Nova Scotia Highway 105

In 2010, the provincial government named the entire highway Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Way in honour of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and her husband Alexander Graham Bell, who resided and are buried at Beinn Bhreagh near Baddeck.

Ralph Murray

A member of Clan Murray headed by the Duke of Atholl, he was the son of the Reverend Charles Murray, Rector of Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, and Mabel (née Umfreville).

Robert Fitzhamon

His eldest daughter Mabel inherited his great estates and married Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester around 1107.

Rhys's daughter Nest became the mistress of King Henry I of England and allegedly was mother of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester who married Mabel, Fitzhamon's daughter and heiress and thus had legitimacy both among the Welsh and the Norman barons.

Rosalie Edge

In May 1909, 32-year-old Mabel Rosalie went to Yokohama, Japan, to marry Charles Noel Edge, a British civil engineer.

Samuel Northrup Castle

# Henry Northrup Castle (August 22, 1862–January 30, 1895) married Frida Steckner (1869–1890) and then Mabel Rosamond Wing (1864–1950) and died in the wreck of the SS Elbe.

Seathwaite Fell

Auntie Mabel and Pippin visit Seathwaite Fell in the second episode of the third series of Come Outside, as they learnt about how graphite was discovered and how pencils are made.

Tawengwa

Their aunt Edna Madzongwe (the late Mabel Tawengwa's young sister) is the current President of Senate and a member of the Politburo (2013).

Ugly sisters

Doris and Mabel are ugly sisters in the films Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.

W. A. Criswell

Divorced with two sons, Mabel Ann possessed an exceptional operatic voice and recorded three albums of sacred music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two with the Ralph Carmichael orchestra.

WFMJ-DT2

Over the air, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 20.2 (or virtual channel 21.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located on Mabel Street in Youngstown.

William A. Emerson

Emerson was born in Columbia, Tennessee on July 13, 1921 to Henry Houston Emerson and Mabel Allen Emerson.


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