Caught in a Cabaret is a 1914 short silent comedy film written and directed by Mabel Normand and starring Normand and Charlie Chaplin.Caught in a Cabaret at silentera.com
Plot Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being the Prime Minister of Greenland to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her older co-star.
Cast Mabel Normand as Mabel Charlie Chaplin as Waiter Harry McCoy as Lover Chester Conklin as Waiter Edgar Kennedy as Cafe proprietor Minta Durfee as Dancer Phyllis Allen as Dancer Josef Swickard as Father Alice Davenport as Mother Gordon Griffith as Boy Alice Howell as Party Guest Hank Mann as Cabaret Patron Mack Swain as Big Tough Man Billy Gilbert as Cabaret Patron Wallace MacDonald as Party guest
Reception The Moving Picture Worlds review said, "This is another two-reel comedy manufactured in Mack Sennett's comical factory out in Californy State [sic]. It caused so much laughter you couldn't hear what the actors was talkin'. Charles Chaplin was the leading fun maker."
A reviewer for the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote, "Superlatives are dangerous epithets, especially when dealing with pictures. For that reason it is unwise to call this the funniest picture that has ever been produced, but it comes mighty close to it."
See also Charlie Chaplin filmography List of American films of 1914
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lantern slide w/ title "The Jazz Waiter"