Mabel's Dramatic Career
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| 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 |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American silent 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.
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
