Underplayed Gems

Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)

Mabel's Dramatic Career poster
Directed by
Mack Sennett
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
14 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman tries to make it as an actress in the movies. A comedy about filmmaking and its early days.

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What happens

Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American silent short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett while featuring Roscoe Arbuckle in a cameo. The movie features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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