

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.

Charlie Chaplin
Mr. Dovey
Lead
Edgar Kennedy
Butler

Minta Durfee
The Lady
Eva Nelson
Maid

Glen Cavender
Bearded Doctor (uncredited)
William Hauber
Gardener (uncredited)
Bert Hunn
Tall Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Harry Russell
Bald Doctor (uncredited)
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