Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel's Dramatic Career is a 1913 American short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett while featuring Roscoe Arbuckle in a cameo. The movie features a film within a film and uses multiple exposure to show a film being projected in a cinema.

Plot
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.

Cast
The cast includes:
 * Mabel Normand as Mabel, the kitchen maid
 * Mack Sennett as Mack
 * Alice Davenport as Mack's mother
 * Virginia Kirtley as Mabel's rival
 * Charles Avery as Farmer
 * Ford Sterling as Actor / Onscreen villain
 * Roscoe Arbuckle as Man in cinema audience
 * Billy Jacobs as Mabel's son (as Paul Jacobs)
 * Charles Inslee as Film Director
 * The Keystone Cops