Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel's Dramatic Career
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	September 8, 1913 (1913-09-08)
Running time	14 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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

1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Mabel's Dramatic Career". Silent Era. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
2. 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 .