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Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life

Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life

1915Short⏱️ 24m
ComedyShort
6
IMDB Rating
320 votes

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, p...

Director
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writers
N/A
Stars
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John
Release Date
January 18, 1915
Language
None, English
Country
United States
💬 11
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
as Roscoe
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
as Mabel
Al St. John
Al St. John
as The Squire's Son
Josef Swickard
Josef Swickard
as Mabel's Father
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Joe Bordeaux
as Farm Hand
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Ted Edwards
as Minister
👤
Phyllis Allen
as The Bride
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Billy Gilbert
as The Groom
Bobby Dunn
Bobby Dunn
as The Village Cop

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Keystone Film Corporation

🏷️ Keywords

farmers daughterslapstick comedyknock at the doorfather disapproves of daughter's suitorfather spanks daughter

🎯 Categories

SlapstickComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

Pretty good but not great Arbuckle film
by planktonrules2006-07-16
7/10

"Fatty is a farmhand on the farm owned by Mabel's father. Their neighbor holds their mortgage and indicated in a letter that he would no longer collect rent IF Mabel were to marry his son (Al St. John). In many ways, this film is very reminiscent of another Arbuckle short, MABEL AND FATTY ADRIFT, as this also features Fatty working on the farm owned by Mabel's parents AND the neighbor, Al St. John wants to marry her. BUT, in MABEL AND FATTY'S SIMPLE LIFE, Mabel's father does want St. John to marry his daughter and what happens from there is very different. In fact, they are ..."

💡 Did You Know?

Included in "The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle" DVD collection, released by Mackinac Media and Laughsmith Entertainment.

📖 Synopsis

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, p...