Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
About Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Mabel hand-washes clothes while her husband, Harry McCoy, stays in bed. Next door, Fatty scrubs laundry while his wife, Alice Davenport, scolds him from the bedroom. Out at the line, Fatty helps Mabel wring a garment and her smock catches in the rollers. Her husband warns him off. In the park Fatty's wife falls asleep over the January 1915 Blue Book. Mabel quarrels with her husband, leaves her purse, and goes to an open-air café with Fatty. He steals his sleeping wife's purse to pay the waiter. She wakes, sees McCoy carrying a purse, and sets two policemen on him. The chase ends at the café in a fight with purses and nightsticks. The cops and Fatty's wife pummel Fatty, and Mabel leads her husband off by the ear.
Cast & crew
More about Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Arbuckle directed. Sennett produced for Keystone. Mutual released it on 14 January 1915, the copyright date. The working title was Mabel's Flirtation. Edgar Kennedy plays the café waiter. Luke the Dog is in the cast. Joe Bordeaux is a cop.
Themes
Making
The wringer gag is the meeting: Mabel's house smock feeds between the rollers of Fatty's tub and nearly comes off her.
Preservation
A print survives. Public domain in the United States. The Internet Archive holds MabelAndFattysWashDay1915.
Notes
- Mabel and Fatty are neighbors with separate spouses, not a married couple.
- The magazine Fatty reads is dated January 1915, the month of the release.
- Silent Era also lists the title Fatty and Mabel's Wash Day.
- A print survives. The Internet Archive identifier is MabelAndFattysWashDay1915.
- Public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Mabel throws a pan of water on her husband and he still will not get out of bed.
- Her smock catches in Fatty's wringer while they hang the wash.
- Fatty lifts his sleeping wife's purse to pay for the café drinks.
- Cops, wives, and purses collide at the café, and Mabel hauls her husband away by the ear.
Also available
- Internet Archive (MabelAndFattysWashDay1915)
