Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel's Dramatic Career
Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett in the film. Image courtesy Orange County Archives.
Directed byMack Sennett
Produced byMack Sennett
StarringMabel Normand
Mack Sennett
Ford Sterling
The Keystone Cops
Distributed byKeystone Studios
Release date
  • September 8, 1913 (1913-09-08)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
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]

See also

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.


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