Fatty’s Spooning Days

Fatty’s Spooning Days (1915) aka Mabel, Fatty and the Law starring Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Harry Gribbon, Minta Durfee

In Fatty’s Spooning Days, Fatty Arbuckle is married to a controlling wife who gets upset if he even looks at another woman. But, Fatty likes to flirt harmlessly. In another household, Mabel Normand is likewise married to a husband with a roving eye. Each couple goes to a park with a strict “No Spooning Allowed” policy, which Keystone Kops strictly enforce!

Product Description 

A young married couple (Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle) decide to take a walk through the park after having an argument caused by the husband’s flirtation with the maid. While on their walk, the couple becomes mixed up with another couple in the park. Thinking that the “No Public Spooning” law had been broken, the police become involved and both the young bride and the other woman’s husband are arrested and taken to jail.

Cast of characters

• Mabel Normand (Fatty and Mabel Adrift) … Mabel – Flirty husband’s Wife
• Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (Back Stage) … Fatty (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
• Harry Gribbon (The Cameraman) … Flirty Husband
• Minta Durfee (The Star Boarder) … Fatty’s Flirty Wife
• Josef Swickard (The Wizard of Oz 1925) … Desk Sergeant

Additional cast

• Billie Bennett (Mabel’s Busy Day) … Flirty Prisoner (uncredited)
• Joe Bordeaux (The Dentist) … Cop in Park (uncredited)
• Jimmy Bryant (Coney Island) … Cop in Park (uncredited)
• Helen Carlyle … Maid (uncredited)
• Glen Cavender (His Trysting Place) … Tobacco Counter Clerk (uncredited)
• Edward F. Cline (Convict 13) … Cop at Station (uncredited)
• Alice Davenport (Tango Tangle) … Flirty Prisoner (uncredited)
• William Hauber (His Musical Career) … Cop in Park (uncredited)
• Frank Hayes (His Trysting Place) … Cop in Tree at Park (uncredited)
• Al St. John (His Prehistoric Past) … Cop in Park / Prisoner in Derby (uncredited)