Mabel’s Strange Predicament
AKA L’Étrange aventure de Mabel and Charlot à l’hôtel in France : [Hotel Mix Up]
(1914) American
B&W : One reel
Directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett

Cast: Mabel Normand [Mabel], Charles Chaplin [the bothersome drunk], Alice Davenport [an indignant hotel guest], Chester Conklin [her husband], Harry McCoy [Mabel’s suitor], [?] ? [hotel desk clerk], Al St. John [bell hop], Hank Mann [moustached hotel guest in pyjamas], [?] Billy Gilbert [bell hop]?, [?] ? [offended woman in lobby chair], [?] ? [woman rocking in lobby chair], Henry Lehrman [hotel guest in lobby]

Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by [?] Henry Lehrman? Cinematography by [?] Frank D. Williams and/or Hans F. Koenekamp? / No copyright registration. Released 9 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Pajamas. [?] Completed or shipped? on 20 January 1914. The film was released in Spain on 17 September 1915. [?] Listed by Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 60 and Website-IMDb as directed by Henry Lehrman.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Alcohol: Drunkeness, Flasks - Animals: Dogs - Biting - Canes - Clothing: Pyjamas - Embarrassment - Furniture: Beds, Chairs - Hats: Bowler - Hotels: Bell hops, Clerks, Lobbies, Rooms - Money - Spitoons - Tobacco: Cigarettes

Listing updated: 30 March 2007.

References: Film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 498; Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 60; Fussell-Normand p. 256; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 29, 135; Lahue-Kops p. 144; Lahue-Mack p. 294; Lahue-World p. 78; Sinyard-Silent p. 100; Tarbox-Lost pp. 125, 279 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.