The Water Nymph
About The Water Nymph
Mabel and Mack go to the beach to trick his father. She dives as a water nymph in trouble. His panic is the joke, until the prank is out.
Cast & crew
More about The Water Nymph
Mack Sennett directed and produced it, and plays Mack. Mabel Normand plays the Diving Venus and did her own dives. Ford Sterling plays Mack's father. Keystone made it. Mutual released it in the United States on September 23, 1912. Wikipedia gives 8 minutes. It was the first comedy Keystone released. Also known as The Beach Flirt. Shot at Venice, Los Angeles. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Sennett shot the dives at Venice, with Normand doing them herself.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Normand's billing in the cast list is Diving Venus.
- Gus Pixley, Fred Mace, and Edward Dillon are billed. Mary Maxwell plays a nymph. Mae Busch is unconfirmed.
- The Sennett Bathing Beauties, a 1915 publicity act, come after this short.
- A circulating copy runs 7 minutes and 48 seconds.
Scenes
- Normand dives and Sterling's father thinks she is in trouble.
- The prank comes out on the beach.
