Katchem Kate
About Katchem Kate
Mabel Normand, as Kate, is ironing in a dress shop when a newspaper advertisement for detective training catches her eye. She leaves for a detective agency headed by Fred Mace. Jack Pickford is in the cast. The story is taken from Dell Anderson's 'Cunning Kate.'
Cast & crew
More about Katchem Kate
Mack Sennett directed. Percy Higginson photographed it. Biograph filmed it in California and released it on 13 June 1912 on a split reel with Neighbors. The negative is 636 feet. Copyright is 25 June 1912. Sylvia Ashton plays Kate's supervisor. Frank Opperman plays a customer and an anarchist. Charles Avery and Edward Dillon are also listed. General Film distributed it.
Themes
Making
Sennett took Anderson's story and put Normand in a dress shop that she walks out of for a detective agency.
Look
Percy Higginson photographed the Los Angeles scenes.
Preservation
A print survives and is on the Internet Archive. Public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The title spelling is Katchem, not Catch 'em.
- The Internet Archive identifier is silent-katchem-kate.
- A print exists. Public domain in the United States.
- Silent Era also lists Vivian Prescott and Anthony O'Sullivan.
- It is a Biograph film. Keystone was not the producer.
Scenes
- Kate looks up from the ironing board at the detective advertisement.
- She arrives at the agency Fred Mace runs.
Influenced by
- Cunning Kate by Dell Anderson
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-katchem-kate)
