Description

Tillie’s Punctured Romance is a 1914 American Silent film comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops. The picture was the first feature-length film produced by the Keystone Studios and the only such film to feature Chaplin.

The film is based on Dressler’s stage play Tillie’s Nightmare by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith. Tillie’s Punctured Romance is notable as being the last Chaplin film which he neither wrote nor directed himself as well as being the first ever feature length comedy. Chaplin plays an utterly different role from his recently created The Tramp character in this movie.

Cast

• Marie Dressler … Tillie Banks, Country Girl
• Mabel Normand .. Mabel, Charlie’s Girl Friend
• Charles Chaplin … Charlie, City Slicker
• Mack Swain … John Banks, Tillie’s Father
• Charles Bennett (actor) … Uncle Banks, Tillie’s millionaire uncle
• Chester Conklin … Mr. Whoozis
• Phyllis Allen … Prison Matron/Restaurant patron (uncredited)
• Billie Bennett … Maid/Party Guest (uncredited)
• Joe Bordeaux … Policeman (uncredited)
• Glen Cavender … First Pianist in Restaurant (uncredited)
• Charley Chase … Detective in Movie Theatre (uncredited)
• Dixie Chene … Guest (uncredited)
• Nick Cogley … Keystone Cop Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
• Alice Davenport … Guest (uncredited)
• Minta Durfee … Crook’s Girlfriend in “A Thief’s Fate” (uncredited)
• Ted Edwards … Waiter (uncredited)
• Billy Gilbert (silent film actor) … Policeman (uncredited)
• Gordon Griffith … Newsboy (uncredited)
• William Hauber … Servant/Cop (uncredited)
• Fred Hibbard … Servant (uncredited)
• Alice Howell …Guest (uncredited)
• Edgar Kennedy … Restaurant Owner/Butler (uncredited)
• Grover Ligon … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• Wallace MacDonald … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• Hank Mann … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• Gene Marsh … Maid/Waitress (uncredited)
• Harry McCoy … Second Pianist in Restaurant/Pianist in Theatre/Servant
• Gordon Griffith … Kid (uncredited)
• Charles Murray (actor) … Detective in ‘A Thief’s Fate’ (uncredited)
• Frank Opperman … Rev. D. Simpson (uncredited)
• Fritz Schade … Waiter/Diner (uncredited)
• Al St. John … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• Slim Summerville … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• A. Edward Sutherland … Keystone Cop (uncredited)
• Morgan Wallace … Thief in the Movie within the Movie (uncredited)