Cruel Cruel Love Poster 501 x 720

Cruel, Cruel Love

Charlie Chaplin Keystone Comedy
1914

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CRUEL, CRUEL LOVE

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY, 1914

Original Movie Poster One Sheet

Edition:

Publisher: Mutual Chaplin Specials

Stone Lithograph

Size: 27.0 x 41 in; 68.58 x 104.14 cm

Signed: unsigned

Cruel, Cruel Love  is a 1914 American comedy silent film starring Charlie Chaplin made at the Keystone Studios. Chaplin plays a character quite different from the Little Tramp for which he would become famous. In this short Keystone film, Chaplin is instead a rich, upper-class gentleman (Lord Helpus) whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend (played by Minta Durfee) sees him being embraced by her maid and jumps to the wrong conclusion. She angrily sends Lord Helpus away, saying she never wants to see him again. Distraught, when Lord Helpus arrives home he is determined to end his life. He swallows what he thinks is a glass of poison and envisions himself being tortured in Hell.

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Creator: Keystone Studios/Mutual Film Co.

Creation Year: 1914

Dimensions: 27.0 x 41 in

Medium: Stone Lithograph

Movement/Style: Golden Age Of Comedy

Period: Early Silent Film

Condition: In-Painting