Poster: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Marie Dressler [Tillie Banks], Charles Chaplin [the city slicker], Mabel Normand [his accomplice], Mack Swain [John Banks, Tillie’s father], Charles Bennett [Donald/Douglas Banks, Tillie’s uncle], Chester Conklin [Mr. Whoozis; and restaurant waiter]; Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) [movie patron detective], Minta Durfee [the other woman in the movie], Charles Murray [detective in the movie], Edgar Kennedy [café manager], Al St. John [Banks’ servant], Gordon Griffith [newspaper boy], Harry McCoy [restaurant pianist], George Summerville (Slim Summerville) [policeman], Edward Sutherland (Eddie Sutherland) [policeman], Hank Mann [policeman], Teddy the dog [Tillie’s dog], Phyllis Allen, Billie Bennett, Joe Bordeaux (Joe Bordeau), Alice Davenport, Alice Howell, G.G. Ligon, Wallace MacDonald

Keystone Film Company production; distributed on State Rights basis. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by Hampton Del Ruth, from the musical play Tillie’s Nightmare with book and lyrics by Edgar Smith and music by A. Baldwin Sloane. / © 4 December 1914 by Keystone Film Company [LU4875]. © 23 March 1915 by Christie Film Company [LP24669]. Released 21 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Dressler No. 1. [?] Completed or shipped? on 25 July 1914. Keystone’s first and only feature film. The film was rereleased in the USA by Tower Film Corporation.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4487.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive (Stanford Theatre Foundation collection) [35mm preservation positive], and in the Film Preservation Associates film collection [16mm reduction positive, 8mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Alcohol: Drunkeness, Intoxication - Benches - Butlers - Inheritances - Jails - Maids - Millionaires - Money - Newsboys - Newspapers - Parks - Police: Keystone Kops, Policemen - Restaurants: Waitresses - Theaters (Motion picture): Audiences - Water

Listing updated: 30 March 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4487; Bardèche-History pp. 85, 118; Bogdanovich-Dwan p. 82; Bohn-Light pp. xix, 69, 99; Dardis-Keaton p. 96; Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 61; Everson-American pp. 21, 156, 262, 369; Fell-History pp. 97, 98-99; Fussell-Normand p. 259; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 18c, 32, 62, 135; Kerr-Silent pp. 70, 74, 161; Lahue-Collecting pp. 50, 61; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 118; Lahue-Kops pp. 66-72, 93, 94, 150; Lahue-Mack p. 296; Lahue-World pp. 34, 79, 148; Lee-Not p. 57; Leish-Cinema p. 30; Limbacher-Feature p. 252; Maltin-Guide p. 1307; McGhee-Wayne p. 118; Schelly-Langdon p. 56; Shipman-Cinema p. 54; Sinyard-Silent p. 43; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy pp. 104, 438; Slide-Aspects pp. 7, 13; Slide-Early p. 18; Tarbox-Lost pp. 222, 241, 279 : ClasIm-204 p. 3 : Website-NFPF.

Home Video: DVD.