Fatty's Magic Pants
About Fatty's Magic Pants
Fatty wants to go to a formal party and cannot get dressed. The trousers will not stay on. He arrives in a mess. Roscoe Arbuckle plays Fatty and directed. Minta Durfee is the girl. The short is also called Fatty’s Suitless Day. A working title was The Borrowed Dress.
Cast & crew
More about Fatty's Magic Pants
Mack Sennett produced it. Mutual distributed it. Keystone copyrighted it on 14 December 1914 and released it that day. Wikipedia times it at 12 minutes. W. H. Productions reedited it and put it out in the United States in 1918 as Fatty’s Suitless Day. Wikipedia lists Charley Chase as Fatty’s rival. Silent Era lists Harry McCoy as the rival and Chase as a guest. Al St. John, Bert Roach, and Slim Summerville are billed. An Internet Archive identifier is FattysSuitlessDay.
Themes
Making
Arbuckle built the reel around one costume that will not stay together, then sent Fatty to the party anyway.
Preservation
The short survives, including the 1918 reissue title.
Notes
- The 1918 rerelease title is the one on the archive file.
- Summerville plays a policeman.
- Frank Opperman is billed as the clothing-store man on the Wikipedia cast.
- The copyright date and the release date are both 14 December 1914.
Scenes
- Fatty wrestles with the trousers before the party.
- He shows up without the suit he started in.
Also available
- Internet Archive (FattysSuitlessDay)
