Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
About Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Roscoe Arbuckle is a hand on the farm of Mabel Normand's father, and the two of them want to marry. Her father is told the mortgage will be torn up if she marries the squire's son instead. Once Mabel and Fatty hear the bargain, they run off. Her father, the rival, and the local constables chase them.
Cast & crew
More about Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Arbuckle directed and plays the farmhand. Mack Sennett produced it for Keystone, which also distributed the short. Al St. John plays the squire's son, Josef Swickard Mabel's father, Joe Bordeaux a farmhand, and Ted Edwards a minister. Keystone released it on 18 January 1915.
Themes
Background
Keystone opened 1915 with this rural elopement comedy before the company's fairground shorts of the spring.
Preservation
A print survives and circulates, including a copy on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- At 24 minutes it is a two-reel Keystone, longer than the one-reel park comedies Normand and Arbuckle released later in 1915.
Scenes
- Mabel and Fatty learn she is the price of the mortgage and bolt, with her father and the squire's son behind them.
Also available
- Internet Archive (FattyAndMabelsSimpleLife1915)
