Mabel's Dramatic Career
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Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 short comedy film
starring Mabel Normand
and featuring Roscoe Arbuckle.
The film features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure
to show a film being projected in a cinema.
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
starring Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...
and featuring Roscoe Arbuckle.
The film features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure
Multiple exposure
In photography, a multiple exposure is the superimposition of two or more individual exposures to create a single photograph. The exposure values may or may not be identical to each other.-Overview:...
to show a film being projected in a cinema.
Cast
- Mabel NormandMabel NormandMabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...
- Mabel, the kitchen maid - Mack SennettMack SennettMack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
- Mack - Alice DavenportAlice DavenportAlice Davenport was an American film actress. She appeared in some 140 films between 1911 and 1930.She was born Alice Shepphard in New York, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. She made her stage debut at age five...
- Mack's mother - Virginia KirtleyVirginia KirtleyVirginia Kirtley was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 55 films between 1913 and 1928.She was born in Bowling Green, Missouri, and died in Sherman Oaks, California.-Selected filmography:...
- Mabel's rival - Charles AveryCharles AveryCharles Avery was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. One of the original seven Keystone Kops, Avery directed Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in thirty-one comedies while at Keystone.-Biography:...
- Farmer - Ford SterlingFord SterlingFord Sterling was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.-Biography:...
- Actor / Onscreen villain - Roscoe Arbuckle - Man in cinema audience
- Billy Jacobs - Mabel's son (as Paul Jacobs)