A Busy Day

A Busy Day
film scene
Directed by	Mack Sennett
Produced by	Mack Sennett
Starring	Charlie Chaplin
Cinematography	Frank D. Williams
Production company	Keystone Studios
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release dates	May 7, 1914 (1914-05-07)
Running time	6 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

A Busy Day

A Busy Day is a 1914 short film starring Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain.

Plot

In A Busy Day, a wife (played by an energetic Charlie Chaplin) becomes jealous of her husband's interest in another woman during a military parade. On her way to attack the couple, the wife interrupts the set of a film, knocking over a film director and a police officer. Finally, the husband pushes the wife off of a pier and she falls into the harbor.

The film contains a judicious amount of kicking and slapping.

Cast

Charles Chaplin as Wife
Mack Swain as Husband
Phyllis Allen as The Other Woman
Mack Sennett as Film director
Billy Gilbert as Police officer

External links

A Busy Day at the Internet Movie Database
A Busy Day at AllMovie
A Busy Day is available for free download at the Internet Archive
A Busy Day on YouTube

Films directed by Charlie Chaplin

Keystone Studios (1914)	Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in the Rain A Busy Day Her Friend the Bandit Mabel's Married Life Laughing Gas The Face on the Bar Room Floor Recreation The Masquerader His New Profession The Rounders The Property Man The New Janitor Those Love Pangs Dough and Dynamite Gentlemen of Nerve His Musical Career His Trysting Place Getting Acquainted His Prehistoric Past

Essanay Studios (1915)	His New Job A Night Out The Champion In the Park A Jitney Elopement The Tramp By the Sea His Regeneration Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen Police Triple Trouble

Mutual Film Corp (1916–17)	The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer

First National (1918–23)	A Dog's Life The Bond Shoulder Arms Sunnyside A Day's Pleasure The Professor The Kid The Idle Class Pay Day The Pilgrim

United Artists (1923–52)	A Woman of Paris The Gold Rush The Circus City Lights Modern Times The Great Dictator Monsieur Verdoux Limelight

Later productions	A King in New York A Countess from Hong Kong

See also	The Chaplin Revue The Freak

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