Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
| Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition | |
|---|---|
Keystone Film Company | |
| Distributed by | Mutual Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (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
See also
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography
- Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915)
References
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition". Silent Era. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
- ^ "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
- 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
