Here is my presentation from SCMS on the "infelicitous romance" of Mabel Normand and Lew Cody -- still images only for now.

2. The Knowing Glance, The Nickel-Hopper, 1926

3. Begrudging acknowledgment of vicissitudes of body
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life, 1915

4. Our “thingness” The Nickel-Hopper, 1926

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

6. Not quite Cinderella –
The Nickel-Hopper (1926)

7. Mabel’s Blunder (1914)

8. Shared Laughter at Romance, Mickey 1918

9. THE COMEDY OF SCREEN ROMANCE
The Extra Girl (1923)

10. Recognition of the inversion of Mabel’s formula for comedy

11. Phantom Romances

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

14. “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