A Busy Day
About A Busy Day
During a parade, a jealous wife, played by Charlie Chaplin in women’s clothes, sees her husband flirting with another woman. She chases him through the crowd and back toward their building. Mack Swain plays the husband. Keystone made the short. Wikidata credits Chaplin as director. The catalog credits Mack Sennett.
Cast & crew
More about A Busy Day
Sennett produced. Frank D. Williams photographed it. Mutual distributed it. Wikidata times it at 16 minutes. An Internet Archive identifier, CC_1914_05_07_ABusyDay, matches a 7 May 1914 release. Phyllis Allen and Billy Gilbert are billed. A Commons file uses the 1914 title.
Themes
Making
Keystone put Chaplin in a dress and shot him against a real parade crowd, with Swain as the man who will not stop flirting.
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the parade and the chase back to the building.
Preservation
The short survives. Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Chaplin is the wife, not the husband. Swain is the husband.
- The parade is the setting of the chase.
- The director credit is split between the catalog and Wikidata.
- The film is silent.
Scenes
- Chaplin, as the wife, spots Swain with another woman.
- The chase runs through the parade.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1914_05_07_ABusyDay)
- Wikimedia Commons (A Busy Day (1914).webm)
