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Wished on Mabel

  • 19151915
  • 13m
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Alice Davenport, and Mabel Normand in Wished on Mabel (1915)
  • Short
  • Comedy
As Mabel is in the park with her over-protective mother, she sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them. When the couple slips away to be by themselves, a thief steals Mabel's mother's wat... Read allAs Mabel is in the park with her over-protective mother, she sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them. When the couple slips away to be by themselves, a thief steals Mabel's mother's watch. While the mother is trying to get help from a policeman, the thief encounters Mabel an... Read allAs Mabel is in the park with her over-protective mother, she sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them. When the couple slips away to be by themselves, a thief steals Mabel's mother's watch. While the mother is trying to get help from a policeman, the thief encounters Mabel and her boyfriend. Soon a complicated situation develops.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  • Stars
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Mabel Normand
    • Edgar Kennedy
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  • Director
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  • Stars
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Mabel Normand
    • Edgar Kennedy
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    • 5User reviews
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    Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Fattyas Fatty
    Mabel Normand
    Mabel Normand
    • Mabelas Mabel
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • Copas Cop
    Alice Davenport
    Alice Davenport
    • Mabel's Motheras Mabel's Mother
    Joe Bordeaux
    • Thiefas Thief
    Glen Cavender
    Glen Cavender
    • Plainclothesman in Parkas Plainclothesman in Park
    Billy Gilbert
    • Police Chiefas Police Chief
    Frank Dolan
    Frank Dolan
    • Man Who Swallows Beeas Man Who Swallows Bee
    • (as James Leslie)
    Ted Edwards
    • Man on Benchas Man on Bench
    • (unconfirmed)
    • (uncredited)
    Keystone Kops
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      • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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    As Mabel is in the park with her over-protective mother, she sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them. When the couple slips away to be by themselves, a thief steals Mabel's mother's watch. While the mother is trying to get help from a policeman, the thief encounters Mabel and her boyfriend. Soon a complicated situation develops. —Snow Leopard
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    • Trivia
      Eleventh of twelve movies that starred The Keystone Cops.
    • Quotes

      Title Card: Mabel Has Outgrown Ma's Fairy Tales

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    6/10
    Last directoral job is silent job well done
    Mabel Normand only directed a dozen or so films (shorts), but "Wished on Mabel" shows that there was something there.

    The film itself is only 12 minutes long and is one of a series of Mabel shorts.

    Viewing of this film was rather accidental as it was on a channel 45 program "Shorts Incorporated", which itself showed during 45's "Horror Incorporated" which was showing "Svengali" with John Berrymore and a preview of 1932's "White Zombie".

    There does not appear to be any other easier way to view the film and a DVD of the Mabel series may at least be an interesting idea.

    This Mabel film is a silent job well done because it is a simple story that is really funny concerning the history of a watch as it passes from owner, to thief, to bystander (finding on the ground), to the original owner's daughter, back to the thief trying to say to was his. The police come and more hilarity persues. Granted there are funnier things out there, but for a silent B/W short of only 12 minutes of length, it is time well spent.

    Rating: 6
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    • ryangilmer007
    • Feb 19, 2002

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    • Release date
      • April 19, 1915 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fatty à la recherche de Mabel
    • Filming locations
      • Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Keystone Film Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      13 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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