Mabel’s Wilful Way
About Mabel’s Wilful Way
Mabel Normand is stuck at an amusement park with her stern parents and ducks away from them. Roscoe Arbuckle and Edgar Kennedy, short of cash, pick her up. Arbuckle pays for two ice creams with a coin lifted from the vendor's till, and he and Mabel toss the ice cream to a bear. A giant slide, a policeman, and her mother and father keep breaking the flirtation apart.
Cast & crew
More about Mabel’s Wilful Way
Roscoe Arbuckle directed, with Mack Sennett producing for the Keystone Film Company. Mutual Film distributed it on 1 May 1915. The working title was Idora Park Story. Alice Davenport and Glen Cavender play Mabel's parents. Joe Bordeaux is a cop.
Themes
Background
A one-reel Keystone comedy released in May 1915, in the run of park and fairground shorts Normand and Arbuckle made that year.
Preservation
A print exists and is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Bobby Dunn plays an ice cream vendor. Billy Gilbert plays a blackface figure in a sideshow game.
- IMDb also lists Mack Sennett as an uncredited co-director.
- The short is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Arbuckle buys ice cream with the vendor's own money and he and Mabel feed it to a bear.
- Mabel's parents and a cop keep turning up and splitting the pair.
Also available
- Internet Archive (MabelsWilfulWay1915)
