Cruel Cruel Love

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Cruel Cruel Love

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26 Mar 1914

Description

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin’s romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle.

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Cast

  • Charlie Chaplin Lord Helpus
  • Minta Durfee The Lady
  • Glen Cavender Bearded Doctor
  • Billy Gilbert Short Ambulance Attendant
  • Chester Conklin Lord Helpus' Butler
  • Bert Hunn Tall Ambulance Attendant
  • Harry Russell Bald Doctor
  • William Hauber Gardener
  • Edgar Kennedy Butler
  • Eva Nelson Maid

Director

  • George Nichols
  • Mack Sennett

Screenwriter

  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Craig Hutchinson

Director of Photography

  • Frank D. Williams

Producer

  • Mack Sennett