Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
December 21, 1914Release Date
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
December 21, 1914Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Charlie Chaplin
The City Slicker
Marie Dressler
Tillie
Mabel Normand
Mabel
Mack Swain
Tillie's Father
Charles Bennett
Douglas Banks - Tillie's Millionaire Uncle
Charley Chase
Staring Man in Theater (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy
Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Mr. Whoozis
Minta Durfee
Maid (uncredited)
Dan Albert
Party Guest
Alice Davenport
Guest at Party (uncredited)
Slim Summerville
Keystone Kop / Guest in Restaurant (uncredited)
Al St. John
Keystone Kop (uncredited)
Phyllis Allen
Prison Matron
Hank Mann
Keystone Kop / Waiter in Movie (uncredited)
Billie Bennett
Maid
Helen Carruthers
Maid / Waitress (uncredited)
Joe Bordeaux
Policeman
Mack Sennett
Director
Glen Cavender
First Pianist in Restaurant / Cop / Guest in First Restaurant / Uncle's Rescuer / Society Guest (uncredited)
Dixie Chene
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edward Kilenyi
Composer
Nick Cogley
Police Chief (uncredited)
William P. Perry
Composer
Hampton Del Ruth
Tall Banks Secretary Searching for Tillie (uncredited) / Screenplay
Frank Dolan
Movie Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
Ted Edwards
Waiter in First Restaurant / Station Cop (uncredited)
Edwin Frazee
Movie Spectator / Guest / Cop (uncredited)
Gordon Griffith
Newsboy (uncredited)
William Hauber
Servant / Policeman (uncredited)
Fred Hibbard
Tall Servant (uncredited)
Alice Howell
Back Room Diner / Party Guest (uncredited)
Robert P. Kerr
Policeman (uncredited)
Grover Ligon
Party Guest / Policeman (uncredited)
Wallace MacDonald
Policeman (uncredited)
Enid Markey
Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Harry McCoy
Singer, Pianist / Prisoner / Various Others (uncredited)
Rube Miller
Tillie's Visitor (uncredited)
Charles Murray
Detective in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Eva Nelson
Disgusted Guest in Second Restaurant (uncredited)
Edward Nolan
Restaurant Dancer / Policeman / Mountain Innkeeper / Party Guest (uncredited)
Frank Opperman
Rev. D. Simpson / Guest in First Restaurant / Station Cop / Movie Spectator (uncredited)
Hugh Saxon
Shorter Banks Secretary Searching for Tillie (uncredited)
Fritz Schade
Waiter in First Restaurant / Station Cop / Prisoner / Guest in Second Restaurant / Kitchen Hand in Second Restaurant (un...
Richard Smith
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Josef Swickard
Movie Spectator (uncredited)
Morgan Wallace
Thief in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert
Policeman (uncredited)
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Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops. The picture is the first feature-length comedy and was the only feature-length comedy made by the Keystone Film Company.
At the time of production Marie Dressler was a major stage star, and in this film Chaplin and Normand support her as leads within Keystone's stock company of actors.
The film, based on Dressler's stage play Tillie's Nightmare by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith, is the first feature-length slapstick comedy in all of cinema.
This was the last time Charlie Chaplin acted in a film that he neither wrote nor directed. He plays a slightly different role from his Tramp character, which was relatively new at the time. However, he retains a moustache (here a pencil-thin "dude" type rather than his usual "toothbrush"), thin cane and distinctive walk.
Tillie provides an early example of film within a film, when the couple go to the cinema to watch A Thief's Fate, large sections of which are seen.