Tillie's Punctured Romance
About Tillie's Punctured Romance
A city man meets Tillie in the country, sees her father's bankroll, and talks her into running off. He dumps her and goes back to his girlfriend. Tillie works as a waitress. The man reads that her millionaire uncle died on a climb and left her the money. He finds her, and a party is set at the uncle's house, where the girlfriend has taken a job as a maid. The uncle is not dead. He walks in and throws them out.
Cast & crew
More about Tillie's Punctured Romance
Mack Sennett directed and adapted it from the 1910 musical Tillie's Nightmare, by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith. Keystone shot it from April 14 to June 9, 1914. The negative left Los Angeles on July 25 and reached New York on July 31. The BFI lists a release of December 21, 1914, and a length of 6,000 feet. The working title was Dressler No. 1. Marie Dressler plays Tillie. Charlie Chaplin plays the city man, not the tramp. Mabel Normand plays his girlfriend. Mack Swain plays Tillie's father. Charles Bennett plays the uncle.
Themes
Making
Sennett stretched a Keystone comedy to six reels so Dressler, Chaplin, and Normand could share the inheritance plot.
Notes
- Other titles include Marie's Millions, For the Love of Tillie, Tillie's Big Romance, and Tillie's Nightmare.
- Dressler had starred in the stage Tillie's Nightmare. She was 45 when Sennett cast her as the country girl.
- Chaplin drops the tramp costume and plays the man who takes her money.
- The uncle's return ends the party.
Scenes
- The city man reads that Tillie has inherited a fortune and goes back to her.
- The uncle, not dead, clears the house.
Influenced by
- Tillie's Nightmare (1910 stage musical)
