Cruel, Cruel Love
Mar 26 1914
•0h 9m
•Comedy
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
Mr. Dovey
Edgar Kennedy
Butler
Minta Durfee
The Lady
Eva Nelson
Maid
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