Mabel's Married Life
About Mabel's Married Life
In the park a masher bothers Mabel. Her husband, Charlie, will not fight him. She goes home angry. He goes to a bar. She buys a boxing dummy. He comes back drunk and fights the dummy, taking it for the man from the park.
Cast & crew
More about Mabel's Married Life
Chaplin directed. He and Mabel Normand wrote it. Mack Sennett produced. Frank D. Williams photographed. Released June 20, 1914. Mack Swain plays the masher. The French title on the archive copy is Charlott et le mannequin. A 1915 short, Mabel and Fatty's Married Life, uses the marriage joke again. It is not a sequel.
Themes
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the park and the room with the dummy.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Swain is the masher Charlie will not hit.
- The opponent at home is a dummy, not Swain.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as CC_1914_06_20_CharlottEtLeMannequin.
- Al St. John, Hank Mann, and Alice Davenport are billed.
Scenes
- Charlie refuses the fight in the park.
- Drunk, he spars with the dummy.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1914_06_20_CharlottEtLeMannequin)
