Mabel's Dramatic Career
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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. 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:
- 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
External links
- at IMDb
- The short film is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.