Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
- January 23, 1915 (1915-01-23)
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
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography
- Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915)
References
External links
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition at IMDb
- 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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