Independent Films, Comedy
Charlot et le Mannequin (Mabel's Married Life)
by CharlieChaplin
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her wimpy husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk. She buys a boxing dummy hoping it will inspire her husband, but when he returns he gets in a fight with it, taking it to be the ladykiller.
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Details
Language: Silent
Year of production: 1914
Length: 12min 27sec
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
Directors:
Charles Chaplin
Producers:
Mack Sennett
Actors:
Charles Chaplin .... Mabel's Husband
Mabel Normand .... Mabel
Mack Swain .... Wellington, a Ladykiller
Eva Nelson .... Wellington's Wife
Hank Mann .... Tough in Bar
Charles Murray .... Man in Bar
Harry McCoy .... Man in Bar
Wallace MacDonald .... Delivery Boy
Al St. John .... Delivery Boy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dixie Chene .... Neighbor (uncredited)
Alice Davenport .... Neighbor (uncredited)
Grover Ligon .... Bartender (uncredited)
Frank Opperman .... Sporting Goods Salesman (uncredited)
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Film reviews for Charlot et le Mannequin (Mabel's Married Life)
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Baxter Martin
Mabel’s Married Life (1914, USA, Chaplin)
Mr. Chaplin takes a beating in Mabel’s Married Life, the 19th short film from Charlie Chaplin. His character goes between a bar where he is harassed by bullies and trying to hit on a girl. He has an opponent who also wants the young girl’s attention, who Chaplin noticed, has a wife sitting dozens of feet away on the other side of the wall. He proceeds with ruining the other guy’s plans and then walks away from the girl. Back to the bar where he is being harassed by everyone and the bartender. He manages to get smashed and wander back into an apartment where he has a drunken adventure with a life-sized dummy that bounces back up when hit, but he wins in the end.
Chaplin’s character here is a sympathetic one. He is the little guy trying to get a girl and trying to drink and he gets hassled wherever he goes. Guys are flicking his tie out of his vest as he tries to drink. A man at least eighteen inches taller whacks his top hat with a tennis racket. Give the guy a break! He is the funny drunk / loveable loser whose facial expressions may be the best of the physical comedy in this one.
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