Caught in a Cabaret
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Caught in a Cabaret | |
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Directed by | Mabel Normand |
Produced by | Mack Sennett |
Written by | Mabel Normand |
Starring | Charles Chaplin Mabel Normand Harry McCoy Chester Conklin Edgar Kennedy Minta Durfee Phyllis Allen |
Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
Distributed by | Keystone Studios |
Release date(s) | 27 April 1914 |
Running time | 16 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film English (Original titles) |
IMDb profile |
Caught in a Cabaret is a short film from 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin and the film's writer/director Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador 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.
[edit] Cast
- Charles Chaplin - Waiter
- Mabel Normand - Mabel
- 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
- Wallace MacDonald - Party guest
[edit] External links
- Caught in a Cabaret at the Internet Movie Database
- Caught in a Cabaret at archive.org (viewable, downloadable film)