Nice and Friendly
About Nice and Friendly
Charlie Chaplin made this eleven-minute short as a wedding present for Lord Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley, and it was not released to theaters. Lady Mountbatten wears a pearl necklace. A crowd of crooks tries to take it. Chaplin, in the Tramp costume, goes after them. Jackie Coogan is in the picture with the Mountbattens.
Cast & crew
More about Nice and Friendly
Chaplin directed and wrote the private short in 1922. The cast credited in the records is Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edwina Mountbatten, and Louis Mountbatten. It runs 11 minutes and was handed over as a gift rather than sold.
Themes
Making
Chaplin improvised the short for the couple's wedding instead of making a commercial release. It stayed in the Mountbatten household.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives and has been placed on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Coogan had just been seen with Chaplin in The Kid (1921).
- The Mountbattens play themselves.
- There is no distributor and no public premiere on record.
- The only plot the descriptions agree on is the necklace and the crooks.
Scenes
- Crooks close in on Lady Mountbatten's pearls and Chaplin, as the Tramp, drives them off.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-nice-and-friendly)
