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Getting Acquainted is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Charlie Chaplin released in USA on 5 december 1914 with Charlie Chaplin
Getting Acquainted (1914)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 december 1914
Length 14minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating55%
Getting Acquainted, subsequently retitled A Fair Exchange, is a 1914 American comedy silent film written and directed by Charles Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and produced by Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios .
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Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife where they become attracted to each other's wife and start chasing them around the park. The policeman is looking for a masher.Actors
Charlie Chaplin
(Mr. Sniffels)
Phyllis Allen
(Mrs. Sniffels)
Mack Swain
(Ambrose)
Mabel Normand
(Ambrose's Wife Mabel)
Harry McCoy
(Flirt in Park (uncredited))
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