Mabel's Stratagem

Overview

Fred Mace plays a businessman with two secretaries. He gets playful with the second secretary, Mabel Normand. His wife, Alice Davenport walks in on him. He does some nice embarrassed husband pantomime. Davenport fires the two secretaries and tell Fred that he will only have male secretaries from now on. The next day, Mabel arrives in drag as a boy to apply for the job. The wife takes him into the next office and starts to make a pass at him.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 29, 1912

Original language

English

Production

Keystone Film Company

Cast

Mabel Normand,Fred Mace,Alice Davenport

Director

Mack Sennett

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0002332