The Knowing Glance, The Nickel-Hopper, 1926

Begrudging acknowledgment of vicissitudes of body

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life, 1915

Our “thingness” The Nickel-Hopper, 1926

Mabel and Teddy as Co-Workers (The Extra Girl, 1923)

Not quite Cinderella –The Nickel-Hopper (1926)

Mabel’s Blunder (1914)

Shared Laughter at Romance, Mickey 1918

THE COMEDY OF SCREEN ROMANCE

The Extra Girl (1923)

Recognition of the inversion of Mabel’s formula for comedy

Phantom Romances

The Infelicitous Couple, Mabel Normand and Lew Cody, 1926 (at film opening)

“It wasn’t like being married. She hated being serious about things, and she loved a joke. She made me feel as though I were taking part in a most glorious lark…” Lew Cody, Oakland Tribune 1931