Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett while featuring Roscoe Arbuckle in a cameo.
[1] The movie features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema.
Mack, a rube from the sticks, travels to the city and learns that his former girlfriend, Mabel the kitchen maid, has made it big in the moving pictures.
He disrupts a showing of her latest film when he mistakes what's happening on screen with real life.
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