Mabel Lost and Won
About Mabel Lost and Won
At a housewarming given by her mother, Mabel Normand becomes engaged. A pushy guest gets her onto the dance floor. When she goes looking for her fiancé she finds him caressing another woman, a vamp. He then has to explain himself to Mabel and to her mother, and neither one is ready to believe him.
Cast & crew
More about Mabel Lost and Won
Mack Sennett produced and, according to Brent E. Walker's Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, directed this one-reel Keystone short. Keystone released it on 3 June 1915. Owen Moore plays the fiancé, Alice Davenport the mother, and Fontaine La Rue, billed as Dora Rogers, the vamp. Mack Swain plays the vamp's husband.
Themes
Background
Released in June 1915, while Normand was both starring for Keystone and taking director credit on other shorts.
Preservation
A print survives. The Internet Archive holds a copy under MabelLostAndWon1915.
Notes
- Brent E. Walker's Sennett filmography credits Sennett as director. Other filmographies credit Mabel Normand, alone or with him.
- Hugh Fay plays the vamp's friend. Ollie Carlyle plays a maid.
Scenes
- Mabel leaves the dance and finds her fiancé with the vamp, then faces him beside her mother.
Also available
- Internet Archive (MabelLostAndWon1915)
