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manager. Not long after Alice leaves her room, Mabel accidentally locks herself out of her room while wearing only pajamas. Charlie happens by and tries to woo her. Mabel flees in embarrassment and eventually enters Alice and Chester's room to hide. Mabel crawls under the bed. Mabel's beau, Harry, brings a bouquet of flowers to Mabel and has a bellhop unlock her room. Finding Mabel absent, Harry decides to wait for her in the room occupied by his friends—Chester and Alice! When Harry finds Mabel hiding under Chester's bed, he assumes the worst and starts a fight with Chester. Alice returns and, upon seeing Mabel, also assumes the worst and starts a fight with her husband. By the movie's end, Harry and Mabel have reconciled, but Alice and Chester have escalated their fight.
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large. I was undecided whether to look old or young, but remembering Sennett had expected me to be a much older man, I added a small mustache, which I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression. I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on stage he was fully born.
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I had no idea what makeup to put on. I did not like my get-up as the press reporter . However on the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I wanted everything to be a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes
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performer. It is not every variety artiste who possesses the ability to act before the camera. Chaplin not only shows that talent, he shows it in a degree which raises him at once to the status of star performer. We do not often indulge in prophecy, but we do not think we are taking a great risk in
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made with Chaplin. Normand, who had written and directed films before Chaplin, mentored the young comedian. Chaplin's Tramp is shown swigging from a flask toward the beginning of the film and subsequently becoming so drunk that he staggers when he walks and falls down repeatedly near the end. His
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An inebriated Charlie annoys several hotel guests while sitting in the lobby. In her hotel room, Mabel is playfully tossing a ball to her dog. The noise disturbs Alice who occupies the room across the hall from Mabel. She informs Chester that she is going to the lobby to make a complaint to the
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prophesying that in six months Chaplin will rank as one of the most popular screen performers in the world. Certainly there has never been before quite so successful a first appearance".
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in what was only his third film, and predicted great things for the former English stage comedian, writing: "The
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cocked throughout the action, a touch that Chaplin abandoned later in his career.
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portrayal of drunkenness remains convincingly realistic. The Tramp also keeps his
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was released first. The film was directed by Normand and produced by
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was first presented to the public in Chaplin's second film
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Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
Henry Lehrman
Mack Sennett
Charles Chaplin
Chester Conklin
Alice Davenport
Harry McCoy
Hank Mann
Al St. John
H.F. Koenekamp
Keystone Studios
Mabel Normand
Charles Chaplin
The Tramp
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Mack Sennett
Mabel Normand
Charles Chaplin
The Tramp
Chester Conklin
Alice Davenport
Harry McCoy
Hank Mann
Al St. John
Charles Chaplin
Keystone Company
Karno

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