The Bride's Mistake

Marjoree Beebe was a successful comedienne who made quite a few shorts...but she's still been pretty much forgotten today. Unless you find one of her shorts on YouTube, you're unlikely to even find any of her shorts.

My experience with them on YouTube has been very, very uneven...with some great comedies and some very poor ones and many in between. I'd place "Brides Mistake" towards the top...but it's not one of her best films.

To enjoy the story, you really have to suspend disbelief. After all, how many brides would lose track of time and spend too much time at the hairdressers AND the hairdressers not know that she has a wedding to get to . Additionally, how likely is it anyone would mix up tobacco with tea and serve a hot cop of tobacco juice to anyone?!

Apart from all this, the film has some funny moments...such as the crazy motorcycle and sidecar bit. It was NOT done with a rear-projection screen and was obviously done by a heck of a stuntman. Why then did they later in the film use a bad rear-projection in the second car chase? Bebee herself was good...willing to look stupid and showing a lot of body language to look sillier.

Overall, a very uneven short that is, overall, worth seeing.

Marjorie Beebe is supposed to marry Kenneth Thomson, but first she has to get a fright-wig hairdo, then ride in a side poorly connected to a motorcycle to a different church. Then she meets Vernon Dent and things really go wrong.

Miss Beebe mugs magnificently for director Earle Rodney in this very funny Mack Sennett short comedy, with a cast that includes Flora Finch, who was the comic bane of John Bunny twenty years earlier. Although she would have her last credited role in 1934, she would continue to appear in movies through 1939, dying the following year at the age of 70.

As for Miss Beebe, I have never seen her in a comedy in which she performed better. A good comic performer needs to look very silly, and she certainly does that here!