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ONE HOUR MARRIED

2^nd film

Copyright: October 26, 1926, Hal Roach-Pathe, 2 reels.

Released: February 27, 1927

Director: Jerry Storm (a.k.a.: Jerome Storm)

Cast: Mabel Normand, Creighton Hale, James Finlayson, Tyler Brooke, Noah Young, Sid Crossly, Charles Geldert.

Location: Roach Studio, Culver City, California

Plot: From the U.S. Copyright Office synopsis “Mabel, just married, loses her husband as they emerge from the church, the Army taking him to France. As a Red Cross nurse, she steals a general’s uniform and, in disguise, searches for her husband. After many exciting experiences, she finds him in a trench and together they go out to clean up an enemy machine gun nest. After it is over, hubby learns that his buddy is his wife and as a reward they get a ten-day leave in Paris.”

Comments: This is the only film that Mabel made with Roach that is missing. Some erroneously list this as her last film, but existing stills show that Mabel was still relatively healthy. The movie takes its place on the continuum of her decline more accurately as her second film with Roach. Its plot-line is rather interesting, given that the war had been over for eight years, perhaps long enough for nostalgia. Here Mabel cross-dresses again, just as she had in Katchem Kate at Biograph and in What Happened to Rosa at Goldwyn. But no mustache can hide Mabel from her fans.

Los Angeles Times (dated July 1, 1926) ran the following story:

Comedy Blast Burns Miss Normand

An accident Monday kept Mabel Normand confined to her home Tuesday, but did not prevent her from resuming work yesterday; it was stated by officials of the Hal Roach studio, where she is employed. Miss Normand is engaged in making a war picture and she suffered a painful burn when a comedy bomb exploded behind her.

According to the Roach Studio production records, production was closed in July,






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