Hello, Mabel

Name: Hello, Mabel
Director: Mack Sennett
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1914
Cast: Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Alice Davenport, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase

1914 Comedy Directed by Mack Sennett

About Hello, Mabel

Mack Sennett produced and directed this Mutual comedy, released on 18 October 1914 and also called On a Busy Wire. Mabel Normand stars. Charley Chase plays her boss, with Al St. John, Chester Conklin, Minta Durfee, Mack Swain, and Alice Davenport in support.

Cast & crew

More about Hello, Mabel

Sennett's direction is uncredited on some listings. Mutual Film released the short in the United States on 18 October 1914. The alternate title is On a Busy Wire.

Themes

An office comedy
A boss and a flirt
Mabel Normand
Charley Chase
Mutual
On a Busy Wire

Making

Sennett both produced and directed, with Normand starring and the Keystone-Mutual regulars filling the lobby and hall.

Music

Silent, with English intertitles.

Preservation

A print exists. Wikipedia lists it among surviving American silent films.

Notes

Also known as On a Busy Wire.
Phyllis Allen plays a woman in the hall. Alice Davenport plays a businessman's wife.
Mack Swain is billed as a married flirt.
A print survives.
It is grouped with the surviving American silent shorts of 1914.