Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett while featuring Roscoe Arbuckle in a cameo.[1] The movie features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema.
| Mabel's Dramatic Career | |
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 Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett in the film. Image courtesy Orange County Archives. | |
| Directed by | Mack Sennett |
| Produced by | Mack Sennett |
| Starring | Mabel Normand Mack Sennett Ford Sterling The Keystone Cops |
| Distributed by | Keystone Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Plot
editMack, a rube from the sticks, travels to the city and learns that his former girlfriend, Mabel the kitchen maid, has made it big in the moving pictures. He disrupts a showing of her latest film when he mistakes what's happening on screen with real life.
Cast
editThe cast includes:[2]
- Mabel Normand as Mabel, the kitchen maid
- Mack Sennett as Mack
- Alice Davenport as Mack's mother
- Virginia Kirtley as Mabel's rival
- Charles Avery as Farmer
- Ford Sterling as Actor / Onscreen villain
- Roscoe Arbuckle as Man in cinema audience
- Billy Jacobs as Mabel's son (as Paul Jacobs)
- Charles Inslee as Film Director
- The Keystone Cops
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Mabel's Dramatic Career". Silent Era. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
- ^ Walker, Brent E. (2010). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland Inc. p. 282. ISBN 9780786457076. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
External links
edit- Mabel's Dramatic Career at IMDb
- The short film Mabel's Dramatic Career is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
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