Charlie Chaplin's "A Fair Exchange"
Charlie Chaplin's "A Fair Exchange"1914Charlie Chaplin, Silents, ccCharlie Chaplins 34th Film Released Dec. 05 1914. This Film was released as Getting Acquainted. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004011/
Getting Acquainted, subsequently retitled A Fair Exchange, is a 1914 in film United States comedy silent film written and directed by Charles Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and produced by Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios .
Synopsis
Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife where they become attracted to each other's wife and start chasing them around the park. The policeman is looking for a masher.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Mr. Sniffels
Mabel Normand - Ambrose's wife
Phyllis Allen - Mrs. Sniffels
Mack Swain - Ambrose
Harry McCoy - Flirt in park
Edgar Kennedy - Policeman
Cecile Arnold - Mary
See also
List of American films of 1914
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Adventurer"
Charlie Chaplin's "The Adventurer"1917Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 62nd Film Released Oct. 22 1917 The Adventurer is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is the last out of the twelve films made while he was under contract for the Mutual Film Corportation. Chaplin plays an escaped convict on the run from prison guards. He falls into favor with a wealthy family after he saves a young lady (Edna Purviance) from drowning, but her suitor (Eric Campbell) does everything he can to have Chaplin apprehended by the officials. The film also stars Henry Bergman, and Albert Austin, and marked the final film of his co-star Eric Campbell who would be dead before the end of the year in a drunk driving accident. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007613/
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The Adventurer is a short comedy film made in 1917 written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and is the last of the twelve films made under contract for the Mutual Film Corporation.
Plot and characters
Chaplin plays an escaped convict on the run from prison guards. He falls into favor with a wealthy family after he saves a young lady (Edna Purviance) from drowning, but her suitor (Eric Campbell (actor)) does everything he can to have Chaplin apprehended by the officials.<></>
The film also stars Henry Bergman and Albert Austin, and marked the final film of his co-star Eric Campbell who died on December 20, 1917 in a drunk driving accident.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - The Convict
Edna Purviance - The Girl
Eric Campbell (actor) - The Suitor
Henry Bergman - The Father
Albert Austin - The Butler
Critical reception
A re-release of the film inspired this enthusiastic review in the August 16, 1920 New York Times. Note that this was written during a period in which Chaplin's film output was practically nonexistent.<></><blockquote>"On the Rivoli program, and also at the Rialto, is a Chaplin revival. The Adventurer, which makes one wish, between laughs, that the screen's best comedian would get to work and do what everyone knows he is capable of. There is a Slapstick humour coarse humor in The Adventurer, but also some of Chaplin's most irresistible pantomime."
See also
List of American films of 1917
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "Police"
Charlie Chaplin's "Police"1916Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 49th Film Released May 27 1916 Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. Charlie playing an ex-convict finds life on the outside not to his liking and leads him to breaking into a home with another thief (Wesley Ruggles). Edna Purviance plays the girl living in the home who tries to change him. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007194/
Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay released in 1916 in film. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. Charlie playing an ex-convict finds life on the outside not to his liking and leads him to breaking into a home with another thief (Wesley Ruggles). Edna Purviance plays the girl living in the home who tries to change him.
Synopsis
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake person. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Charlie, Convict 999
Edna Purviance - Daughter of the House
Wesley Ruggles - Jailbird and Thief
James T. Kelley - Drunk with Pockets Picked/Second Flophouse Customer
Leo White - Fruitseller/Flop House Manager/Policeman
John Rand (actor) - Fruitseller/Flop House Manager/Policeman
Fred Goodwins - Honest Preacher/Policeman with Monocle
Billy Armstrong (actor) - Crooked Preacher/Second Cop
Snub Pollard - Crooked Preacher/Second Cop
Bud Jamison - Third Flophouse Customer
Paddy McGuire (actor) - Fifth Flophouse Customer
George Cleethorpe - Policeman at Station with Moustache
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Charlie Chaplin's "A Burlesque On Carmen"
Burlesque on Carmen is Charlie Chaplin's thirteenth and last film for Essanay Studios, released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Darn Hosiery and Edna Purviance played Carmen (novella). Carmen was very popular at this time and two films under this title had already been released in 1915, one by Carmen (1915 Raoul Walsh film) where Theda Bara played Carmen and one by Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) where the part was played by Geraldine Farrar. Chaplin's version is a parody of DeMille's film, following closely its structure and using very similar sets and costumes.<>Review, synopsis and link to watch the film </>
Synopsis
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A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Darn Hosiery
Edna Purviance - Carmen
Jack Henderson - Lillas Pastia
Leo White - Morales, Officer of the Guard
John Rand (actor) - Escamillo the Toreador
May White - Frasquita
Bud Jamison - Soldier of the Guard
Lawrence A. Bowes - Gypsy
Frank J. Coleman - Soldier
Production
The film was released in two reels at the end of 1915 when Chaplin's contract with Essanay Studios was up. The studio added two reels worth of additional non-Chaplin material and re-released the film in 1916.
Music
The film included the song "Carmen" by William McKenna.
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Charlie Chaplin's "One A.M."
Charlie Chaplin's "One A.M."1916Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 54th Film Released Aug. 07 1916 One A.M. was a unique Charlie Chaplin silent film created for Mutual Films in 1916. It was the first film he starred in alone, except for a brief scene of Albert Austin playing a cab driver. Chaplin plays the role of a wealthman coming home late, after too much to drink. He only wants to go to bed, but 'everything' around him prevents him. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007145/
One A.M. was a unique Charlie Chaplin silent film created for Mutual Film in 1916 in film. It was the first film he starred in alone, except for a brief scene of Albert Austin playing a cab driver.
Plot
The film opens with a scene of a wealthy young man (Chaplin) arriving at his house in a taxi late at night after a night of heavy drinking. He struggles with the car door when exiting the car and then in paying the taxi driver (Albert Austin). When he gets to his front door, he thinks that he has forgotten the key and has to enter through the window. While climbing in through the window, he steps into a fishbowl that's placed underneath it and then almost falls down when the carpet underneath him slides. After finding his balance again, he goes through his pockets and realises that the key has been there all the while. He goes back through the window and enters through the front door.
Inside the house, the furniture and other inanimate objects become almost insurmountable obstacles for the drunk. He struggles to balance on the sliding carpets and wonders whether he is wearing skates. Falling down, he lands between a tiger rug and a stuffed Eurasian lynx, which terrify him as he thinks they are real. He goes over to the table and tries to pour himself a drink, but first he accidentally spins the table top around and then does not manage to pour the drinks inside a glass. He then unsuccessfully attempts to light a cigarette, and then tries to head up the stairs to his bedroom. He fails several times in climbing them; a large cuckoo clock on the upstairs landing also poses a problem. He becomes increasingly creative with his attempts to climb the stairs, for example by using mountain climbing gear.
When he finally reaches his bedroom, he struggles to open his Murphy bed and ends up wrecking it. He gives up on the idea of sleeping in his bed and goes to bathroom. He enters the shower and accidentally turns it on. Soaked, he then gets into the bathtub and falls asleep under a towel.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Drunk
Albert Austin - Taxi driver
Sound version
In 1932, Van Beuren Studios of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures. Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release.
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure"
Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure"1917Charlie Chaplin's 60th Film Released April 16 1917 The Cure is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a drunk who checks into a health spa to dry out, but his suitcase full of alcohol does not aid him in this pursuit. Along the way he aggravates a large man and seduces a young lady, as Chaplin's characters are often wont to do. The film featured Chaplin's frequent co-stars Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, John Rand, James T. Kelley, Albert Austin, and Frank J. Coleman. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007832/
The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
Synopsis
Chaplin plays a drunkard who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man suffering from gout, evades him and encounters a beautiful young woman who encourages him to stop drinking. However, when the hotel owner learns his employees are getting drunk off Charlie's liquor, he calls an employee and orders him to have the liquor thrown out the window.
The drunk employee hurls the bottles through the window, straight into the spa's health waters. The well becomes spurious with alcohol, sending the spa's inhabitants into a dancing stupor. Chaplin, encouraged by his new love to get sober, drinks from the spurious spa, gets drunk and offends her. She leaves him in anger and walks away. Charlie walks back to the door unsteadily, when he bumps into the large man, tripping him off his wheel chair and landing him into the alcoholic well.
The next morning there are plenty of hangovers, but Chaplin turns sober, walks out and finds the lady. Realizing what had happened, she forgives him. They walk ahead, just then he accidentally steps into the liquor-laden well.
One introduction which has since been added to the film explains that in 1917 drunkenness was a serious problem in the working class, so to keep it funny Chaplin changed from his "Little Tramp" character to an upper-class fop. Gout was at the time believed to be a disease of the wealthy, which is why Eric Campbell (actor)'s character has it.
Sound version
In 1932, Amedee Van Beuren of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures. Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release.
Preservation status
On September 4, 2013 a missing part of the end of the film was found and will be released on a future DVD. A restored version of The Cure was presented at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival on January 11, 2014.
Cast
Charlie Chaplin as The Inebriate
Edna Purviance as The Girl
Eric Campbell (actor) as The Man with the Gout
Henry Bergman as Masseur
John Rand (actor) as Sanitarium Attendant
James T. Kelley as Sanitarium Attendant
Albert Austin as Sanitarium Attendant
Frank J. Coleman as Head of Sanitarium
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie's Recreation"
Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie's Recreation"1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 23rd film released August 13 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004518/
Recreation is a short comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was released on 13 August 1914.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Tramp
Charles Bennett (actor) - Seaman on Park Bench (uncredited)
Helen Carruthers - Girl in Park (uncredited)
Edwin Frazee - Short Cop (uncredited)
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Landladys Pet" aka The Star Boarder
Charlie Chaplin's "The Landladys Pet" aka The Star Boarder1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplins 9th Film Released April 04 1914 As The Star Boarder http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004637/
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The Star Boarder is a 1914 in film United States-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin.
The film is also known as The Landlady's Pet.
Synopsis
Chaplin is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - The Star Boarder
Minta Durfee - Landlady
Edgar Kennedy - Landlady's husband
Gordon Griffith - Their son
Alice Davenport - Landlady's friend
See also
List of American films of 1914
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "His New Job"
Charlie Chaplin's "His New Job"1915Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 36th Film released Feb. 01 1915 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005489/
His New Job is a 1915 American Short film Silent film comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin.< name="silentera"></> Gloria Swanson appears as an uncredited extra.< name="silentera" /> The title is an inside erence to this being Chaplin's first film after leaving Keystone Studios for Essanay Studios. It was also the only film Chaplin shot at Essanay's Chicago studio. He found the facilities and climate (His New Job was shot in mid-winter) not to his liking, and Chaplin soon relocated back to California.
Synopsis
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Film Extra
Ben Turpin - Film Extra, in Afternoon
Charlotte Mineau - Film Extra
Leo White - Actor, Hussar Officer
Robert Bolder - Studio President
Charles J. Stine - Director
Arthur W. Bates - Carpenter
Jess Robbins - Cameraman
Gloria Swanson - Extra, Stenographer (uncredited)
Preservation status
A print of the film is preserved at the George Eastman House and is now in the public domain.< name="silentera" />
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Floorwalker"
Charlie Chaplin's "The Floorwalker"1916Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplins 51st Film Released May 15 1916 The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Company made in 1916. It starred Chaplin as a customer in a department store who finds out the manager is stealing money from the store. It was noted for the first 'running staircase' used in films. Edna Purviance played a minor role as a secretary to the store manager, played by Eric Campbell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006689/ Watch more Chaplin films
The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin first Mutual Film Corporation film, made in 1916 in film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional The Tramp, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell (actor), and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Tramp
Eric Campbell (actor) - Store manager
Edna Purviance - Manager's secretary
Lloyd Bacon - Assistant manager
Albert Austin - Shop assistant
Charlotte Mineau - Beautiful store detective
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Charlie Chaplin's "Making A Living"
Making a Living (also known as Doing His Best, A Busted Johnny, Troubles and Take My Picture) is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin.<></> It premiered on February 2, 1914.< name="Neibaur"></> Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. It was written and directed by Henry Lehrman.
Plot
Chaplin's character attempts to convince a passerby (director Henry Lehrman) to give him money. Chaplin is then shown flirting with a woman; Lehrman enters to present the woman with flowers and sees Chaplin. A slapstick fight between the two ensues. Later, Lehrman's character takes a photograph of an automobile accident; Chaplin's character steals the camera whilst the journalist is helping a trapped motorist and rushes back to the paper with it to claim the photograph as his own. A short pursuit with the Keystone Kops follows.< name="Neibaur" />
Chaplin's performance
Chaplin wore a large moustache and a top hat in this film, he also carries a walking cane. Chaplin's famed screen persona of "The Tramp" did not appear until his next film, Kid Auto Races at Venice, but his character in this film is somewhat similar, having hat, cane, moustache and baggy trousers.< name="Maland"></> In later accounts Chaplin lamented that the best of his performance had been left out of the final cut.< name="Okuda"></> Lehrman later admitted to deliberately mishandling the cutting of the film out of spite for Chaplin.< name="Weissman"></>
The Fremont Hotel, Los Angeles is shown briefly in the background of a fighting scene in the road.
Cast
Charlie Chaplin - Swindler
Virginia Kirtley - Daughter
Alice Davenport - Mother
Henry Lehrman - Reporter
Minta Durfee - Woman
Chester Conklin - Policeman / Bum
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Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's " The Pawnshop"
Charlie Chaplin's " The Pawnshop"1916Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916. The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007162/
The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film. Released on October 2, 1916, it stars Chaplin in the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner, played by Henry Bergman. Edna Purviance plays the owner's daughter, while Albert Austin appears as an alarm clock owner who watches Chaplin in dismay as he dismantles the clock; the massive Eric Campbell (actor)'s character attempts to rob the shop.
This was one of Chaplin's more popular movies for Mutual, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time.
Synopsis
Chaplin plays an assistant in a pawnshop run by Bergman. He engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant, deals with eccentric customers, and flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter.
One customer, posing as a jewelry buyer, pulls a gun and tries to rob the place. Chaplin disarms him.
Primary cast
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Charles Chaplin: Pawnshop assistant
Henry Bergman: Pawnbroker
Edna Purviance: His daughter
John Rand (actor): Pawnshop assistant
Albert Austin: Client with clock
Wesley Ruggles: Client with ring
Eric Campbell (actor): Thief
Sound version
In 1932, Van Beuren Studios of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures. Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release.
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "Dough And Dynamite"
Charlie Chaplin's "Dough And Dynamite"1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 29th Released Oct. 26 1914 The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results. Dough and Dynamite was one of two Charlie Chaplin films that were to be shown at a special event in September, 2001. However, in the light of 9/11, it was taken off the list of films as it ends with Charlie walking out of a blown up building. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003863/
Dough and Dynamite is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
Plot
The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Pierre
Chester Conklin - Jacques
Fritz Schade - Monsieur La Vie, Bakery Owner
Norma Nichols - Mme. La Vie, the Baker's Wife
Glen Cavender - Head baker
Cecile Arnold - Waitress
Vivian Edwards - Customer
Phyllis Allen - Customer
John Francis Dillon (director) - Customer
Edgar Kennedy - Striking baker
Slim Summerville - Striking baker
Charley Chase (as Charles Parrott) - Customer
Wallace MacDonald - Customer
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Charlie Chaplin's "Mabel's Busy Day"
Charlie Chaplin's "Mabel's Busy Day"1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 18th Film Released June 13 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004280/
Mabel's Busy Day is a 1914 short comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin; the film was also written and directed by Mabel Normand. The supporting cast includes Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy, Al St. John, Charley Chase, and Mack Sennett.
Synopsis
Mabel (Mabel Normand) tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie (Charles Chaplin) finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Cast
Mabel Normand - Mabel
Charles Chaplin - Tipsy nuisance
Chester Conklin - Police sergeant
Slim Summerville - Policeman
Billie Bennett - Woman
Harry McCoy - Hotdog thief
Wallace MacDonald - Spectator
Edgar Kennedy - Tough hotdog customer
Al St. John - Policeman
Charley Chase - Spectator
Mack Sennett - Customer
Henry Lehrman - Spectator
See also
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Charlie Chaplin's The Rink
Charlie Chaplin's The Rink1916The, rink, charlie, chaplinThe Rink
The Rink, a silent film from 1916 in film, was Charlie Chaplin's eighth film for Mutual Film Corporation. The film co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell (actor), Henry Bergman, and Albert Austin, and is best known for showcasing Chaplin's roller skating skills.
Synopsis
After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - A Waiter. Posing as Sir Cecil Seltzer
Edna Purviance - The Girl
James T. Kelley - Her Father
Eric Campbell (actor) - Mr. Stout, Edna's Admirer
Henry Bergman - Mrs. Stout and Angry Diner
Lloyd Bacon - Guest
Albert Austin - The Cook and Skater
Frank J. Coleman - Restaurant Manager
John Rand (actor) - Waiter
Charlotte Mineau - Friend of Edna
Leota Bryan - Friend of Edna
Sound version
In 1932, Van Beuren Studios of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures. Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release.
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Category:American silent short films
Category:Black-and-white films
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Charlie Chaplin's "Behind The Screen"
Charlie Chaplin's "Behind The Screen"1916Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 57th Film released November 13 1916. Behind the Screen, a short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. In the film which takes place in a movie studio, Chaplin plays a stagehand named David while Campbell ("Goliath") plays his supervisor. Much of the film is slapstick comedy but other issues are also brought up such as a stagehand strike as well as a plotline in which Purviance, unable to become an actress, dresses as a man and becomes a stagehand. The film is silent. The film is noted for having one of the first Hollywood gay jokes in it. After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a woman, he kisses her while on the set. A male stagehand sees this and thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006414/
Behind the Screen is a 1916 in film short film silent film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell (actor) and Edna Purviance.
Synopsis
The film takes place in a movie studio. A stagehand named David (Chaplin) has a supervisor, Goliath (Campbell). Much of the film is slapstick comedy involving Chaplin manhandling large props, but other plotlines include a strike action by the stagehands, and Purviance, who is unable to become an actress, dressing as a man and becoming a stagehand.
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Mention in The Celluloid Closet and Unknown Chaplin
The film is significant to the history of homosexuality in the cinema, as it contains a joke about the subject, which was relatively unusual at the time. After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a woman, he kisses her while on the set; at this point, a male stagehand enters and, thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him.
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "Charlott Mabel Aux Courses" aka Gentlemen of Nerve
Charlie Chaplin's "Charlott Mabel Aux Courses" aka Gentlemen of Nerve1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 30th Film Released Oct. 30 1914 as Gentlemen of Nerve http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004007/
Gentlemen of Nerve is a 1914 American comedy silent film directed by Charles Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and produced by Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios.
Plot
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Mr. Wow-Woe
Mabel Normand - Mabel
Chester Conklin - Ambrose
Mack Swain - Mr. Walrus
Phyllis Allen - Flirty woman
Edgar Kennedy - Policeman
Alice Davenport - Patron
See also
List of American films of 1914
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Charlie Chaplin's "His Prehistoric Past"
Charlie Chaplin's "His Prehistoric Past"1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 35th Film Released Dec. 07 1914. This is his last film for Keystone Studios as well. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004102/
His Prehistoric Past is a 1914 American Short subject silent film comedy film, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, featuring a Chaplin in a stone-age kingdom trying to usurp the crown of King Low-Brow to win the affections of the king's favorite wife. The film was Chaplin's last at Keystone Studios.
Synopsis
Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land (where every man has one thousand wives), he falls in love with the King's favorite wife. When the King falls over a cliff, he is presumed dead and Charlie crowns himself King. The King, however, is not dead and comes back and bashes Charlie over the head with a rock. It turns out it was a dream and a police man bashed Charlie over the head with his club because he was sleeping in the park.
Cast
Charlie Chaplin as Weak-Chin
Mack Swain as King Low-Brow
Fritz Schade as Ku-Ku aka Cleo, Medicine Man
Cecile Arnold as Cavewoman
Al St. John as Caveman
Sydney Chaplin as Policeman
Gene Marsh as Sum-Babee, Low-Brow's Favorite Water Maiden
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Knockout"
Charlie Chaplin's "The Knockout"1914Charlie Chaplin, Silents, Fatty ArbuckleCharlie Chaplins 17th Film Released June 11 1914 The Knockout was Charlie Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin only has a small role, and Fatty Arbuckle takes up the main role. It also stars Arbuckle's wife, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy and Keystone owner, Mack Sennett in a minor role as a spectator. The film was directed by Charles Avery, and made in 1914 in America. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004194/
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The Knockout (1914 in film) was Charlie Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin only has a small role, and Roscoe Arbuckle takes up the main role (it is one of only a few films in which Chaplin's Little Tramp character appears in a secondary role; Chaplin doesn't even appear until the second half of the film). It also stars Arbuckle's wife, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy and Keystone owner, Mack Sennett in a minor role as a spectator. The film was directed by Charles Avery, and made in 1914 in film in United States.
Cast
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Pug
Minta Durfee - Pug's girlfriend
Edgar Kennedy - Cyclone Flynn
Charles Chaplin - Referee
Frank Opperman - Fight promoter
Al St. John - Pug's rival
Hank Mann - Tough
Mack Swain - Gambler
See also
Charlie Chaplin filmography
Fatty Arbuckle filmography
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Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"
Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"1917Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 61st Film Released June 17 1917. The Immigrant (also called Broke) starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. The movie was written and directed by Chaplin. According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin decided the reason the Tramp was penniless was that he had just arrived on a boat from Europe, and used this notion as the basis for the first half. Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence (in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie) that she became physically ill. The scene in which Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as evidence of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the United States in the 1950s. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008133/
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The Immigrant (also called Broke) is a silent film 1917 American comedy short film starring the Charlie Chaplin The Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell (actor).
The movie was written and directed by Chaplin.
According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin decided the reason the Tramp was penniless was that he had just arrived on a boat from Europe, and used this notion as the basis for the first half. Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence (in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie) that she became physically ill.
The scene in which Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as evidence of his ant
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Charlie Chaplin's "A Busy Day"
Charlie Chaplin's "A Busy Day"1914Charlie Chaplin, SilentsCharlie Chaplin's 14th Film Released May 07 1914 Chaplin plays a wife jealous of her husband's interest in another woman, played by Phyllis Allen. On her way to attack the couple, the wife interrupts the set of a film, knocking over a film director, played by Mack Sennett, and a policeman, played by Billy Gilbert http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003733/
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A Busy Day is a 1914 short film starring Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain.
Plot
In A Busy Day, a wife (played by an energetic Charlie Chaplin) becomes jealous of her husband's interest in another woman during a military parade. On her way to attack the couple, the wife interrupts the set of a film, knocking over a film director and a police officer. Finally, the husband pushes the wife off of a pier and she falls into the harbor.
The film contains a judicious amount of kicking and slapping.
Cast
Charles Chaplin as Wife
Mack Swain as Husband
Phyllis Allen as The Other Woman
Mack Sennett as Film director
Billy Gilbert (silent film actor) as Police officer
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