Mabel and Me A Novel about the Movies |
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| Author:
| Boorstin, Jon |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62640-016-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
| Publisher: | Angel City Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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Mabel and Me is a novel about the Movies - a sharply observed, historically accurate, deliciously intimate story set in the earliest days of motion pictures. Beautifully told, this is a tale of Mack, his coming of age with the Movies, and his passionate, destructive, and ultimately liberating love for one of the very first movie stars, the sweetheart of slapstick - Mabel Normand. Theirs is the story of the birth of the modern movie age. It's a story they lived together. Day in,...
More Description Mabel and Me is a novel about the Movies - a sharply observed, historically accurate, deliciously intimate story set in the earliest days of motion pictures. Beautifully told, this is a tale of Mack, his coming of age with the Movies, and his passionate, destructive, and ultimately liberating love for one of the very first movie stars, the sweetheart of slapstick - Mabel Normand. Theirs is the story of the birth of the modern movie age. It's a story they lived together. Day in, day out. Until they didn't.
Mabel Normand was the model for the modern woman: her brief life, from slapstick girl to box-office bonanza to drug addict to modern savvy star, embodied the evolution of the Movies. She was the Queen of Comedy, a flapper a decade before flappers, the first to have her name emblazoned in the title of a picture, the first director of Charlie Chaplin's tramp - not to mention the person who convinced Mack Sennett to give Chaplin his first break, immediately recognizing his comic genius. Mabel was the first woman allowed to be both beautiful and funny, the model for the modern comedic star, and she was shockingly sexy at the time. Watching Mabel on screen was like being slapped in the face with a perfumed glove." Author Jon Boorstin portrays her love affairs - all fact-based, particularly her defining, explosive relationship with Mack Sennett - with humor, poignancy, and drama.
Mabel and Me takes us directly inside the world of the birth of the Movies, inside the world of Hollywood 1912. We become obsessed with motion pictures, in love with their mesmerizing power. Entertaining, heartfelt, and unexpected, Boorstin's novel delivers us to the first moments of filmmaking and recreates the sense of all that was happening on film and behind the scenes for the very first time. Written in a voice that's side by side with Hollywood's premier female movie star, one that's close to her, and from a perspective that's often privy to what Normand is thinking - even when she starred with Chaplin in the first feature-length comedy ever made.
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