Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life

1915
24m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

299

YOUR RATING

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Ted Edwards, and Mabel Normand in Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (1915)

Comedy Short

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and ... Read allFatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local c... Read allFatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

299

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Included in "The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle" DVD collection, released by Mackinac Media and Laughsmith Entertainment.

Goofs
When Mabel's Father hears a knock at the door, he puts his bottle into the book and leaves the book on the table, overhanging the edge. After answering the door and bring the Squire's Son into the room, the book has disappeared.

Quotes
Title Card: She Was Happy

Connections
Featured in TCM Guest Programmer: John Landis (2009)

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Down On The Farm, With The Farmer's Daughter

This Fatty Arbuckle-Mabel Normand finds the two of them down on the farm where her dad doesn't approve of his daughter's interest in a guy with no future. He's got plans for her to marry the son of the richest man in the county who coincidentally enough has the mortgage on the property.

I nearly blew my mind when I saw the handsome, but shallow suitor was Al St. John who later became a comic sidekick in hundreds of B westerns. He also was Fatty Arbuckle's nephew.

Arbuckle and Normand are a pretty funny pair and that last scene with them fleeing in a car to get over the state line so they can marry is pretty hilarious. Remember what cars were back in those days, rather tricky things and Fatty's Flivver seems to have a mind of its own.

Ironic indeed that both Arbuckle and Normand were involved in two of the biggest scandals and earliest ones in film history and both came to a premature end. Still they are funny pair to enjoy and appreciate today.

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