Up in Mabel's Room
About Up in Mabel's Room
Mabel Ainsworth sees her husband Garry buying lingerie he will not explain, and she gets a Paris divorce. She later learns the chemise was an anniversary gift with her name embroidered on it. Following him home, she finds him posing as a single man while Sylvia Wells chases him. At a party given by Jimmy Larchmont she pretends not to know Garry and plants the chemise on him. Sylvia finds it, faints, and is carried into Mabel's room, where Garry is under the bed. After a string of mix-ups Mabel gets the chemise back. The divorce was never valid, and they stay married.
Cast & crew
More about Up in Mabel's Room
E. Mason Hopper directed Al Christie's production for Christie Film Company. Producers Distributing Corporation released it on 20 June 1926. F. McGrew Willis and Tay Garnett adapted the 1919 play by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach. Walter Graham wrote the titles. Charles Cadwallader designed the sets. Copyright LP22783, 29 May 1926. Seven reels, 6,345 feet.
Themes
Making
Christie presented the farce as a feature comedy built on one garment: a chemise embroidered for Mabel and then found in the wrong man's pocket.
Look
Harold Rosson and Alex Phillips shared the photography.
Preservation
A 16mm reduction positive survives. Silent Era lists the picture as extant and in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The Garry Ainsworth of this film is the silent-era actor Harrison Ford, not the later star of the same name.
- Phyllis Haver plays Sylvia Wells. Harry Myers is Jimmy Larchmont. Sylvia Breamer is Alicia. William Orlamond is Hawkins, the valet. Arthur Hoyt is Simpson.
- James B. Morley edited.
- A 1944 sound remake stars Marjorie Reynolds, Dennis O'Keefe, and Gail Patrick.
- Silent Era records a surviving 16mm reduction positive. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Mabel catches Garry at the lingerie counter and he will not say who the gift is for.
- Sylvia finds Mabel's chemise in Garry's pocket and faints.
- Garry is under the bed in Mabel's room while the guests sort the mix-up.
Influenced by
- The 1919 play Up in Mabel's Room by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach
Influenced
- Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Up in Mabel's Room (1926).webm)
