Mabel's Busy Day
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A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie.
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1914
Length: 04'43
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
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Actors:
Mabel Normand ... Mabel
Chester Conklin ... Police Sergeant
Slim Summerville ... Policeman
Billie Bennett ... Woman
Harry McCoy ... Hot dog thief
Wallace MacDonald ... Spectator
Edgar Kennedy ... Tough hot dog customer
Al St. John ... Policeman
Charley Chase ... Spectator
Mack Sennett ... Customer
Henry Lehrman ... Spectator
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Baxter Martin
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2008-02-09 00:16:37
Chaplin in Mabel's Busy Day
“Mabel’s Busy Day” (1914, Mabel Normand)
There’s not too much more to this story than a hot dog girl and a hustler prone to violence. Charlie manages to find a cop that’s smaller than him to start his beating on. He shows some funny moves in this film such as smacking Mabel behind him while he’s talking to a policeman. As it’s Chaplin’s 18th film overall and in 1914, he has begun to round out his character and not let himself dawdle for too long. There is enough action and quick sequencing in “Mabel’s Busy Day” that make this one of the more enjoyable and memorable 1914 Chaplin films.