Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle & Edgar Kennedy in "A Flirt's Mistake" (1914)

A woman's husband runs into trouble when he flirts with the wrong "girl".

Skirt-chasing Fatty makes a pass at a pretty girl--only to discover that the "girl" is in fact a visiting rajah (Edgar Kennedy) with a violent temper.

The Keystone Cops share in the shenanigans.

A 1914 American Black & White silent short slapstick comedy film directed by George Nichols, produced by Mack Sennett, starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, William Hauber, Edgar Kennedy, Virginia Kirtley, Henry Lehrman, Frank Opperman, George Nichols, and the Keystone Cops.

This silent movie, produced by the Keystone Film Company, contains no onscreen cast or crew credits, and was released as a split reel along with "Moscow and Its Environs" (1914).

The enraged rajah was played by Edgar Kennedy. "Big Ed" was a former boxer, who was still fighting professionally even as his new career in screen comedy started to take off. In the 'teens he made over 60 films for Mack Sennett, before moving on to other studios and developing a reputation as a master of the "slow burn." Kennedy played the foil to the likes of Harry Langdon, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers in the years to come.

Edgar Kennedy (1890-1948), born Edgar Livingston Kennedy in Monterey County, California, 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 portray characters whose anger slowly rose in frustrating situations. In many of his roles, he used exasperated facial expressions and performed very deliberately to convey his rising anger or "burn", often rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face in an effort to control his hotheaded temper. Kennedy attended San Rafael High School before taking up boxing. After boxing, he worked as a singer in vaudeville, musical comedy and light opera, making his screen debut in 1911, Kennedy performed with some of Hollywood's biggest comedians, and was one of the original Keystone Cops. Kennedy's burly frame originally suited him for villainous or threatening roles in silent pictures. By the 1920s, he was working for producer Hal Roach, who kept him busy playing supporting roles in short comedies. Kennedy also directed half a dozen of Roach's two-reel comedies. In 1930, RKO-Pathe featured Kennedy in a pair of short-subject comedies, Next Door Neighbors and Help Wanted, Female. His characterization of a short-tempered householder was so effective, RKO built a series around him. The "Average Man" comedies starred Kennedy as a blustery, stubborn everyman determined to accomplish a household project or get ahead professionally, despite the meddling of his featherbrained wife (usually Florence Lake), her freeloading brother (originally William Eugene, then Jack Rice) and his dubious mother-in-law (Dot Farley). Kennedy pioneered the kind of domestic situation comedy that later became familiar on television. Each installment ended with Kennedy embarrassed, humbled or defeated, looking at the camera and doing his patent slow burn. The Edgar Kennedy Series, with its theme song "Chopsticks", became a standard part of the moviegoing experience. He made six "Average Man" shorts a year for 17 years.

Directed by George Nichols, who also appears as one of the flirts trolling the park with Arbuckle. Nichols was an experienced actor who had served as D.W. Griffith's assistant at Biograph, before joining fellow Biograph alum Mack Sennett at Keystone. He continued to work as both a director and occasional actor, and was among Mabel Normand's favorite supporting players.

George Nichols, sometimes credited in films as George O. Nicholls (1864-1927), was an American actor and film director. He is perhaps best remembered for his work at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios. Nichols was born in Rockford, Illinois. He made 221 known film appearances from 1908 up to his death in 1927. He also directed 103 films between 1911 and 1916. Along with Henry "Pathe" Lehrman, Nichols became an arch-enemy of Charlie Chaplin very early on in Chaplin's film career, as Chaplin was dissatisfied with Nichols' way of directing and comic ideas while both worked at Keystone in 1914. In his autobiography, Chaplin recalled a dispute between himself and Nichols during the shooting of a film in which Chaplin appeared. While working at Keystone, 'Pops', as the beloved actor and director was known, was often cast as father to Mabel Normand. With his wife Viola Alberti, whom he married in 1896, he was the father of another prolific director, George Nicholls Jr., sometimes also credited as George Nichols, Jr.

Amusing little short. A simple, though unbelievable case of mistaken identity drive this movie thru its paces. The most interesting part of the film is the fashions of the day. A basic view of what was typical in 1914. A one joke film that has enough laughs in it to make it worth catching. Especially for "Fatty" Arbuckle completists.

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