He Did and He Didn’t
About He Did and He Didn’t
A doctor, played by Roscoe Arbuckle, is jealous when his wife's old schoolmate comes to dinner. Mabel Normand plays the wife. Burglars break into the house the same night. The violent turn that follows, including a killing, is then put down as a dream the two men share after a bad lobster.
Cast & crew
More about He Did and He Didn’t
Arbuckle directed and wrote the short. Mack Sennett produced it, without an on-screen credit. Triangle Keystone released it on 30 January 1916. William Jefferson, Al St. John, Joe Bordeaux, and Lloyd Peddrick are in the cast.
Themes
Look
Elgin Lessley, uncredited on the film, photographed it. A production still shows him filming Arbuckle and Normand on the set.
Preservation
A print circulates at 15 minutes and 39 seconds, shorter than the 20 minutes given for the 1916 release.
Notes
- A circulating copy runs 15 minutes and 39 seconds.
- Wikipedia gives the official running time as 20 minutes.
- The schoolmate's name is Jack in some plot summaries.
- Arbuckle plays the doctor; one later description calls the character Dr. E. J. Watson.
Scenes
- The schoolmate arrives for dinner and the doctor watches every move.
- The night's violence is written off as a shared dream after bad lobster.
Also available
- Internet Archive (HeDidAndHeDidnt1916)
