Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American silent short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett while featuring Roscoe Arbuckle in a cameo. The movie features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema.
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Plot
Mack, a rube from the sticks, travels to the city and learns that his former girlfriend, Mabel the kitchen maid, has made it big in the moving pictures. He disrupts a showing of her latest film when he mistakes what's happening on screen with real life.
Cast
The cast includes:
Mabel Normand as Mabel, the kitchen maid
Mack Sennett as Mack
Alice Davenport as Mack's mother
Virginia Kirtley as Mabel's rival
Charles Avery as Farmer
Ford Sterling as Actor/Onscreen villain
Roscoe Arbuckle as Man in cinema audience
Billy Jacobs as Mabel's son (as Paul Jacobs)
Charles Inslee as Film Director
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