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A Busy Day is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mack Sennett released in USA on 7 may 1914 with Charlie Chaplin
A Busy Day (1914)
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Add to a movie listA Busy Day is a 1914 short film starring Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain.
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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.Actors
Charlie Chaplin
(Wife)
Mack Swain
(Husband)
Phyllis Allen
(The Other Woman (unconfirmed))
Mack Sennett
(Newsreel Film Director (uncredited))
Billy Gilbert
(Policeman)
Billy Gilbert
(Policeman (uncredited))
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