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Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

191513 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Two neighbours struggle through wash day while their spouses refuse to help. A meeting over the laundry leads to mutual sympathy, refreshments in the park and suspicions that turn a shared complaint into domestic trouble.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
12:42
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Behind the scenes

Arbuckle and Mabel Normand build the comedy around household work and unequal marriages. Their practical cooperation contrasts with the irritation they encounter at home.

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