Mabel's Stratagem

Mabel's Stratagem

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 29, 1912

Runtime

0h 6m

User Score

50%

Original Title

Mabel's Stratagem

Production Companies

Keystone Film Company

Director

Mack Sennett

Description

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.