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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

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'Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition' is a 1915 American silent black-and-white short comedy film, directed by Fatty Arbuckle and starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. It was produced by Keystone Studios.

Plot



Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) and Mabel (Mabel Normand) are a married couple visiting the Exposition. Fatty gets in trouble by flirting with a passing woman (Minta Durfee) while Mabel shops. He chases the woman into a hula pavilion and makes approaches to the dancers. He is accosted by both Mabel and the woman's husband; eventually the police are called to straighten the whole thing out.

Cast



* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty

* Mabel Normand as Mabel

* Minta Durfee

* Harry Gribbon as Man in audience at hula show

* Frank Hayes

* Edgar Kennedy as Cop

* Joe Bordeaux as Flirty guy in go-cart

Production background



Arbuckle and Normand followed the Keystone tradition of showing up at an actual event and using that as background for a largely improvised film. The event in this case was the Panama-California Exposition, held in Balboa Park in San Diego, California in 19151916. The film is 14 minutes long. It was released on January 23, 1915.

See also



* Fatty Arbuckle filmography

* 'Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco' (1915)

References




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