Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913 film
- September 8, 1913 (1913-09-08)
Running time
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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.
Plot
Mack, 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
The 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
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography
References
- ^ "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
- 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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Films directed by Mack Sennett
- The Country Lovers (1911)
- At Coney Island (1912)
- The Joke on the Joker (1912)
- The Engagement Ring (1912)
- The Eternal Mother (1912)
- Did Mother Get Her Wish? (1912)
- Pants and Pansies (1912)
- The Mender of Nets (1912)
- The Fatal Chocolate (1912)
- A Spanish Dilemma (1912)
- Hot Stuff (1912)
- A Voice From The Deep (1912)
- Oh, Those Eyes (1912)
- Help! Help! (1912)
- The Brave Hunter (1912)
- The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
- The Furs (1912)
- When Kings Were The Law (1912)
- Helen's Marriage (1912)
- Tomboy Bessie (1912)
- Katchem Kate (1912)
- Neighbors (1912)
- A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
- The New Baby (1912)
- The Tourist (1912)
- What The Doctor Ordered (1912)
- An Interrupted Elopement (1912)
- The Tragedy of a Dress Suit (1912)
- He Must Have A Wife (1912)
- Cohen Collects A Debt (1912)
- The Water Nymph (1912)
- The New Neighbor (1912)
- Riley and Schultz (1912)
- The Beating He Needed (1912)
- Pedro's Dilemma (1912)
- Ambitious Butler (1912)
- The Flirting Husband (1912)
- At Coney Island (1912)
- At It Again (1912)
- Mabel's Lovers (1912)
- The Deacon's Troubles (1912)
- A Temperamental Husband (1912)
- Mr. Fix-It (1912)
- The Rivals (1912)
- A Desperate Lover (1912)
- Bronw's Seance (1912)
- A Family Mixup (1912)
- A Midnight Elopement (1912)
- Mabel's Adventures (1912)
- The Drummer's Vacation (1912)
- The Duel (1912)
- Mabel's Stratagem (1912)
- King's Court (1912)
- Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912)
- Keystone Cops (1912)
- A Voice from the Deep (1912)
- Won by a Fish (1912)
- A Bandit (1913)
- Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913)
- Cohen Saves the Flag (1913)
- The Foreman of the Jury (1913)
- The Gypsy Queen (1913)
- Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)
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- A Noise from the Deep (1913)
- Peeping Pete (1913)
- The Riot (1913)
- Some Nerve (1913)
- The Telltale Light (1913)
- That Ragtime Band (1913)
- When Dreams Come True (1913)
- Mabel's New Hero (1913)
- The Fatal Mallet (1914)
- Hello, Mabel (1914)
- Tango Tangles (1914)
- Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
- Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
- Love, Speed and Thrills (1915)
- My Valet (1915)
- The Other Man (1916)
- Oh, Mabel Behave (1922)
- The Good-Bye Kiss (1928)
- Girl Crazy (1929)
- Match Play (1930)
- Midnight Daddies (1930)
- I Surrender Dear (1931)
- One More Chance (1931)
- Hypnotized (1932)
- The Timid Young Man (1935)
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