In Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life, Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand are “poor but honest” sweethearts, and St. John is Fatty’s rival …
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915) starring Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John
Fatty is a farmhand, working for Mabel’s father. It’s cute how he and Mabel keep flirting with each other, as they’re doing their farm chores. It’s clear that they want to get married, but …
Al St. John is the son of the Squire, and his father owns the mortgage on the farm. And he’s willing to tear it up if Mabel will marry the son! Which her father’s good with, but Mabel clearly isn’t! So,, she and Fatty decide to elope. But her father, the squire’s son, and the police are in hot pursuit!
Cast of characters
- Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (Fatty and Mabel Adrift) … Roscoe
- Mabel Normand (Mabel at the Wheel) … Mabel
- Al St. John (Back Stage) … The Squire’s Son
- Josef Swickard (The Property Man) … Mabel’s Father
- Joe Bordeaux (The Dentist) … Farm Hand
- Ted Edwards (His Prehistoric Past) … Minister
- Phyllis Allen (His Trysting Place) … The Bride
- Billy Gilbert (The Music Box; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) … The Groom
- Bobby Dunn (The Fixer Uppers) … The Village Cop