3. Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)

Keystone 1914

Synopsis

A tipsy Charlie, playing a lascivious hotel guest, bothers Mabel and other female guests. Mabel gets in trouble with her boyfriend, an elderly husband gets in trouble with his wife, and Charlie gets in trouble with everybody as confusion reigns up and down the hotel corridors. There is much business with people sneaking in and out of rooms, complicated by the presence of a dog.

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Directors:

Mabel Normand

Scenario:

Reed Heustis

Cast:

Charles Chaplin (Drunk)

Mabel Normand (Mabel)

Chester Conklin (Husband)

Alice Davenport (Wife)

Harry McCoy (Lover)

Al St John (Hotel Manager)

Billy Gilbert (Bellhop)

Hank Mann (Hotel Guest)

Henry Lehrman (Hotel Guest in Lobby

(Brent Walker notes that Minta Durfee and William Hauber also played hotel guests but were cut from the final print)

Shooting days:

January 6-January 12

Negative sent from LA:

January 20

Received in New York:

January 26

Released:

February 9 1914

Length:

1016 ft.

Keystone working title:

Pajamas.

Other title:

Hotel Mixup