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Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love

Mar 26, 1914
Comedy | Silent
USA | English | Color | 00:16
DVD
1 disc
Region 1

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