Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

1915 film

  • January 23, 1915 (1915-01-23)
Running time
14 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition is a 1915 American silent black-and-white short comedy film, directed by Fatty Arbuckle and starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.[1] It was produced by Keystone Studios.

Plot

Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) and Mabel (Mabel Normand) are a married couple visiting the Exposition. Fatty gets in trouble by flirting with a passing woman (Minta Durfee) while Mabel shops. He chases the woman into a hula pavilion and makes approaches to the dancers. He is accosted by both Mabel and the woman's husband; eventually the police are called to straighten the whole thing out.

Cast

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty
  • Mabel Normand as Mabel
  • Minta Durfee[2]
  • Harry Gribbon as Man in audience at hula show
  • Frank Hayes
  • Edgar Kennedy as Cop
  • Joe Bordeaux as Flirty guy in go-cart

Production background

Arbuckle and Normand followed the Keystone tradition of showing up at an actual event and using that as background for a largely improvised film. The event in this case was the Panama-California Exposition, held in Balboa Park in San Diego, California in 1915–1916. The film is 14 minutes long. It was released on January 23, 1915.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition". Silent Era. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
  2. ^ "Minta Durfee Filmography". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2020.

External links

  • Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition at the TCM Movie Database
  • Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition available for free download at Internet Archive
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