Cruel, Cruel Love is a 1914

1914 in film

The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City....

 American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 comedy silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 made at the Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...

 and starring Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

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Plot

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

Minta Durfee

Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee was an American silent film actress from Los Angeles, California, possibly best known for her role in Mickey .-Biography:...

, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...

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Cast

• Charles Chaplin - Lord Helpus/Mr. Dovey
• Edgar Kennedy
  Edgar Kennedy
  Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper...
  
   - Lord Helpus' Butler
• Minta Durfee
  Minta Durfee
  Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee was an American silent film actress from Los Angeles, California, possibly best known for her role in Mickey .-Biography:...
  
   - The Lady
• Eva Nelson - Maid

Rediscovery

Cruel, Cruel Love was presumed a lost film for 50 years until a rather good complete nitrate copy was discovered in South America. Cruel, Cruel Love was then copied and its original two reel format is available for sale.

See also

• Lost film
  Lost film
  A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
  
  
• List of rediscovered films
• Charlie Chaplin filmography
  Charlie Chaplin filmography
  Charlie Chaplin was a British film actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, musician and music composer whose work in motion pictures spanned from 1914 until 1967. During his early years in film he became established as a worldwide cinematic idol renowned for his tramp persona. During the...
  
  
• Keystone Studios
  Keystone Studios
  Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...
  
  

External links

• Cruel, Cruel Love at archive.org (viewable, downloadable movie)