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Spotlight: Mabel NormandFilm 6 of 10
Tillie's Punctured Romance
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Mack Sennett's first feature, 1914: Marie Dressler as Tillie, Chaplin as the city slicker who robs her, Mabel Normand as the other woman. Six reels, Keystone, the first American feature comedy. Chaplin is not the Tramp; he is a villain in a bowler. Dressler, already a stage star, is the movie: a country girl in a city that exists to fleece her. It is clumsy, long, and the moment slapstick decided it could last an hour.
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The first American feature comedy, six reels, and Dressler has the billing. Chaplin is the villain in a bowler. Normand is the other woman and the one who keeps the thing readable when it sprawls. Watch her in the restaurant scenes. Six reels was a bet, and she is a lot of why it paid.
The villain in a bowler. Chaplin robs Marie Dressler in Sennett's first feature, and he is not the Tramp; he is the Keystone method with a moustache. Useful as the world the walk escaped from. Watch him next to Normand, who knew the job.
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