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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 Cops. The picture was the first feature-length motion picture produced by the Keystone Film Company, and is the only one featuring Chaplin. The film is based on Dressler's stage play Tillie's Nightmare by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith. Tillie's Punctured Romance is notable for being the last Chaplin film which he neither wrote nor directed, as well as the first feature-length comedy in all of cinema. In it, Chaplin plays an entirely different role from his Tramp character, which was relatively new at the time. It is cited as the first feature length comedy motion picture ever made.
Original Release
12/21/1914
US Release
12/21/1914
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marie Dressler | Tillie / Tillie Banks |
Charles Chaplin | The City Slicker / Charlie, a stranger |
Mabel Normand | Mabel / Mabel, the girl he left behind |
Mack Swain | Tillie's Father |
Charles Bennett | 1st Restaurant Proprietor / Douglas Banks - Tillie's Millionaire Uncle / Donald Banks |
Chester Conklin | Singing Waiter / Mr. Whoozis / Mr. Whoozis, guest at party |
Dan Albert | Party Guest / Cop |
Phyllis Allen | Prison Matron / Restaurant Patron / Guest |
Billie Bennett | Maid / Party Guest |
Joe Bordeaux | Policeman |
Directors
Writers
Hampton Del Ruth, Mack Sennett, Craig Hutchinson, A. Baldwin Sloane, Edgar Smith
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marie Dressler | Tillie / Tillie Banks |
Charles Chaplin | The City Slicker / Charlie, a stranger |
Mabel Normand | Mabel / Mabel, the girl he left behind |
Mack Swain | Tillie's Father |
Charles Bennett | 1st Restaurant Proprietor / Douglas Banks - Tillie's Millionaire Uncle / Donald Banks |
Chester Conklin | Singing Waiter / Mr. Whoozis / Mr. Whoozis, guest at party |
Dan Albert | Party Guest / Cop |
Phyllis Allen | Prison Matron / Restaurant Patron / Guest |
Billie Bennett | Maid / Party Guest |
Joe Bordeaux | Policeman |
Tom Byrne | Paperboy |
Helen Carruthers | Maid and Waitress |
Glen Cavender | First Pianist in Restaurant / Cop / Guest in First Restaurant / Uncle's Rescuer / Society Guest |
Charley Chase | Detective in Movie Theatre / Detective in movie theater |
Dixie Chene | Party Guest |
Nick Cogley | Police Chief |
Alice Davenport | Party Guest / Guest at party |
Frank Dolan | Movie Spectator / Party Guest |
Minta Durfee | Crook's Girlfriend in 'A Thief's Fate' / Maid |
Ted Edwards | Waiter in First Restaurant / Station Cop |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Mack Sennett | Producer |