Tango Tangles (1914)
March 9, 1914Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Charlie Chaplin
Tipsy Dancer / Writer
Ford Sterling
Band Leader
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Clarinetist
Chester Conklin
Guest in Police Costume
Minta Durfee
Guest
Sadie Lampe
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Dave Morris
Dance Organizer (uncredited)
Frank Opperman
Clarinetist / Guest (uncredited)
George Jeske
Cornet Player / Guest with Bow Tie (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Drummer in Band / Guest in Cone Hat (uncredited)
William Hauber
Flutist (uncredited)
Harry McCoy
Piano Player (uncredited)
Bert Hunn
Guest (uncredited)
Peggy Pearce
Guest (uncredited)
Al St. John
Guest in Convict Costume (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert
Guest in Cowboy Hat (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Guest in Overalls (uncredited)
Charles Avery
Guest in Straw Hat (uncredited)
Rube Miller
Guest Pushed Away (uncredited)
Eva Nelson
Guest with Man in Cone Hat (uncredited)
Alice Davenport
Guest with Man in Overalls (uncredited)
Mack Sennett
Director / Writer / Producer
Frank D. Williams
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Tango Tangles is a 1914 American film comedy short starring Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken Chaplin, Ford Sterling, and the huge, menacing, and acrobatic Arbuckle fighting over a girl. The supporting cast also features Chester Conklin and Minta Durfee. The picture was written, directed and produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios and distributed by Mutual Film Corporation.
In Tango Tangles, Charlie Chaplin appears without makeup and his usual mustache, baggy pants, and oversized shoes. The film was shot at a dance hall without any sort of formal script. Mack Sennett, in his 1954 autobiography King of Comedy, said of the impromptu nature of Tango Tangles, "We took Chaplin, [Ford] Sterling, [Roscoe] Arbuckle and [Chester] Conklin to a dance hall, turned them loose, and pointed a camera at them. They made funny, and that was it." Tango Tangles marked the last time that Ford Sterling and Chaplin appeared in the same film. Sterling had decided to leave Keystone where he had gained most of his fame as the chief of the Keystone Cops.