''A Noise from the Deep'' is a 1913 American
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silent comedy film starring
Mabel Normand and
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked w ...
. The film was directed and produced by
Mack Sennett
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and also features the
Keystone Cops
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History
The idea for th ...
on horseback.
''A Noise from the Deep'' still exists and was screened four times in 2006 in the
Museum of Modern Art
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in
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as part of a 56-film retrospective of all known surviving
Arbuckle movies.
Overview
Normand
throws the first pie known to ever be thrown on film in this ten-minute short about a gorgeous farm girl (Normand) in love with an obese farmhand (Arbuckle); the charming country couple wants to get married but are delayed by her father's insistence upon her choosing a different suitor.
The movie was the first pairing of Mabel Normand and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, who went on to become a sensationally popular romantic screen team and made seventeen films together; writer/director/actress Normand, the most prominent silent movie comedian, was an almost equally frequent partner and mentor of
Charles Chaplin
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during the same period.
Cast
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Mabel Normand as Mabel
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked w ...
as Bob
*
Charles Avery (uncredited minor role)
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Nick Cogley
Nickolas P. J. Cogley (May 4, 1869 – May 20, 1936) was an American actor, director and writer of the silent films. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1909 and 1934.
Biography
Cogley was born in New York, New York. He attended St ...
(uncredited minor role)
*
Alice Davenport (uncredited minor role)
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William Hauber
William Hauber (May 20, 1891 – July 17, 1929) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1913 and 1928. He was born in Brownsville, Minnesota, and died in California in a plane crash during aerial scouting for f ...
(uncredited minor role)
*
Charles Inslee
Charles E. Inslee (1870 – September 1922) was an American actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1908 and 1921.
Biography
Born in New York City, Inslee was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Inslee of Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain is ...
(uncredited minor role)
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Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic character actor who appeared in at least 500 films during the silent and sound eras. Professionally, he was known as "Slow Burn", owing to his ability to por ...
(uncredited minor role)
*
Al St. John
Al St. John (also credited as Al Saint John and "Fuzzy" St. John; September 10, 1892 – January 21, 1963) was an early American motion-picture comedian. He was a nephew of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, with whom he often performed on ...
(uncredited minor role)
See also
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List of American films of 1913
A List of American films of 1913 is a compilation of American films that were released in the year 1913.
See also
* 1913 in the United States
References
External links
1913 filmsat the Internet Movie Database
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Fatty Arbuckle filmography
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These are the films of the American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Roscoe Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond (♦) were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the films he di ...
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1913 films
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Keystone Studios films
1913 short films
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