Tag: Mabel At The Wheel
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Dec 02 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand at the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race
These are the only known film scenes of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race held in Santa Monica, California.
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Dec 13 2008
Film: Chaplin, Normand, Sennett and the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The best documentation of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race is a Mack Sennett-produced slapstick comedy starring Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin and Charlie Chaplin called Mabel at the Wheel. Actual scenes of the race, won by Ralph DePalma in a Mercedes, were used as part of the film. A 2008 book Chaplin by Dr. Stephen Weissman has detailed the significance of this film in the careers of Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett:
