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Cruel, Cruel Love

Comedy
5.1·1914·0h 9m

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 gentlem...

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Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Mr. Dovey

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy

Butler

Minta Durfee

Minta Durfee

The Lady

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Eva Nelson

Maid

Glen Cavender

Glen Cavender

Bearded Doctor (uncredited)

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William Hauber

Gardener (uncredited)

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Bert Hunn

Tall Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

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Harry Russell

Bald Doctor (uncredited)

DIRECTORS

George Nichols, Mack Sennett

OVERVIEW

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.