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A Busy Day

  • 1914
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A Busy Day (1914)
ShortComedy

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

  • Director
    • Mack Sennett
  • Writer
    • Charles Chaplin
  • Stars
    • Charles Chaplin
    • Mack Swain
    • Phyllis Allen
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    4.7/10
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    • Director
      • Mack Sennett
    • Writer
      • Charles Chaplin
    • Stars
      • Charles Chaplin
      • Mack Swain
      • Phyllis Allen
    • 9User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Billy Gilbert, Mack Swain, and Frank D. Williams in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    Charles Chaplin in A Busy Day (1914)
    A Busy Day (1914)

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    Charles Chaplin
    Charles Chaplin
    • The Wife
    Mack Swain
    Mack Swain
    • The Husband
    Phyllis Allen
    • The Other Woman
    • (unconfirmed)
    • (uncredited)
    Ted Edwards
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Billy Gilbert
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett
    • Newsreel Film Director
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mack Sennett
    • Writer
      • Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Charles Chaplin's first appearance on film dressed as a woman. He would later play women in two subsequent films, The Masquerader (1914) and A Woman (1915).
    • Connections
      Featured in Chaplin's Goliath (1996)

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    7/10
    Not a great comedy, but great for historical purposes
    A Busy Day is probably one of Chaplin's first comedies (it's at least in his first year of screen acting, 1914). He is not the Tramp, but actually playing a woman, a henpecking wife who drives her husband to another woman. Alas, film comedy had not matured yet, so, like many of its kindred films, A Busy Day contains only the broadest slapstick comedy: woman hits man, man hits woman, woman kicks man in butt, repeat. However, scrolling through this film's alternate titles, I came upon something utterly interesting: one of those alternate titles was The Militant Suffragette!!! I'm not exactly sure when women got the vote (I know that the first presidential election they voted in was 1920), but, judging from that title, this film may have been criticizing (humorously, not seriously) women who wished to have political rights! Now how's that for history!
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    • Apr 17, 2001

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    • Release date
      • May 7, 1914 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Busy as Can Be
    • Production company
      • Keystone Film Company
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    • Runtime
      6 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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