Mabel's Dramatic Career

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Movie
Original title Mabel's Dramatic Career
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1913
length 14 minutes
Rod
Director Mack Sennett
production Mack Sennett
for Keystone Film Company
occupation

Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American silent film directed by Mack Sennett .

action

Mack proposes marriage to his friend Mabel, the kitchen helper , which she enthusiastically accepts. Mack's mother reproaches her son and welcomes an acquaintance who has just come from the city to join them in the country all the more warmly. Mack also flirts awkwardly with the woman, causing Mabel, furious with jealousy, to attack both Mack and the woman and Mack's mother with a stick. Mabel is released and goes to town, where she is hired as an actress. Mack proposes to the woman from town, which she refuses with horror. Mack now blames himself for letting Mabel go.

Years later, Mack is in town and sees a movie advert announcing Mabel as an actress. He goes to the cinema where the Keystone film is being shown. Mack believes the action on the screen is reality, waves to Mabel enthusiastically when it appears on the screen and - much to the displeasure of the other viewers - is excited when Mabel is kidnapped, tied up and threatened with life by a villain in the film. The villain manages to shoot the police who are chasing him and to go back to the house in which Mabel is being held. When he threatens her with a revolver, Mack jumps up and shoots his pistol at the screen. The audience and projectionist flee and Mack decides to kill the villain.

He sees him in a house. Before he can aim at him, Mabel comes into the room. She is the wife of the movie villain and they both have three children. Mack is furious and aims at the man, but is doused with a bucket of water by a man from an upper floor. He flees.

production

The recordings for Mabel's Dramatic Career were finished in August 1913. The premiere of the film took place on September 8, 1913. The film was re-released in 1918 under the title Her Dramatic Debut by the WH Productions Company. Another alternate title of the film is Hurry, Hurry .

The film shows Roscoe Arbuckle in one of his early roles as a cinema viewer who, as the person sitting next to the excited Mack, has to react to his emotional outbursts.

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