Mabel's Busy Day
About Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race. She bribes one policeman with a hot dog to get onto the course and does little business. Charlie crashes the gate, finds her box unattended, and gives the hot dogs away. She sends the police after him. The track breaks into a fight.
Cast & crew
More about Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel Normand wrote and directed it and plays Mabel. Frank D. Williams photographed it. Keystone released it on June 13, 1914. Wikipedia times a copy at 12 minutes and 42 seconds. Charlie Chaplin plays the tipsy nuisance. Chester Conklin is a police sergeant. Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, Al St. John, Charley Chase, and Mack Sennett are in the crowd.
Themes
Making
Normand directed the racetrack crowd and played the seller.
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the gate, the box of hot dogs, and the fight that follows.
Notes
- Harry McCoy is billed as a hot-dog thief. Billie Bennett and Wallace MacDonald are spectators.
- Chaplin's gag is giving away stock Mabel is trying to sell.
- The bribe that gets her in is one of her own hot dogs.
Scenes
- Mabel bribes the policeman with a hot dog.
- Charlie hands her stock out to the crowd.
