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Caught in a Cabaret
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Wikipedia article
'Caught in a Cabaret' is a 1914 short comedy film written and directed by Mabel Normand and starring Normand and Charles Chaplin.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CaughtInACabaret1914.html 'Caught in a Cabaret' at silentera.com]
Plot
Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being the Prime Minister of GreenlandFrom the movie itself to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star.
Cast
* Mabel Normand - Mabel
* Charles Chaplin - Waiter
* Harry McCoy - Lover
* Chester Conklin - Waiter
* Edgar Kennedy - Cafe proprietor
* Minta Durfee - Dancer
* Phyllis Allen - Dancer
* Josef Swickard - Father
* Alice Davenport - Mother
* Gordon Griffith - Boy
* Alice Howell - Party Guest
* Hank Mann - Cabaret Patron
* Mack Swain - Big Tough Man
* Billy Gilbert - Cabaret Patron
* Wallace MacDonald - Party guest
Reviews
The Moving Picture World's review said, "This is another two-reel comedy manufactured in Mack Sennett's comical factory out in Californy State [sic]. It caused so much laughter you couldn't hear what the actors was talkin'. Charles Chaplin was the leading fun maker."
A reviewer for the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote, "Superlatives are dangerous epithets, especially when dealing with pictures. For that reason it is unwise to call this the funniest picture that has ever been produced, but it comes mighty close to it."
See also
* Charlie Chaplin filmography
*List of American films of 1914
References
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