A Day's Pleasure

A Day's Pleasure
Theatrical poster to A Day's Pleasure
Directed by	Charles Chaplin
Produced by	Charles Chaplin
Written by	Charles Chaplin
Starring	Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Marion Feducha Bob Kelly Jackie Coogan Tom Wilson Babe London Henry Bergman Loyal Underwood
Music by	Charles Chaplin (in 1959 re-release as part of The Chaplin Revue)
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh
Edited by	Charles Chaplin (uncredited)
Production company	Charles Chaplin Productions
Distributed by	First National Pictures Inc.
Release dates	December 15, 1919 (1919-12-15)
Running time	25 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English (Original intertitles)

A Day's Pleasure (1919) is Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature The Kid. It is about a day outing with his wife and the kids and things don't go smoothly. Edna Purviance plays Chaplin's wife and Jackie Coogan one of the kids. The first scene shows the Chaplin Studio corner office in the background while Chaplin tries to get his car started.

Reception

A Day's Pleasure is almost universally regarded as Chaplin's least impressive First National film. Even contemporary critics were muted in their enthusiasm, as evidenced by this mixed review from the December 8, 1919 New York Times:

"Charlie Chaplin is screamingly funny in his latest picture, A Day's Pleasure, at the Strand, when he tries in vain to solve the mysteries of a collapsible deck chair. He is also funny in many little bits of pantomime and burlesque, in which he is inimitable. But most of the time he depends for comedy upon seasickness, a Ford car, and biff-bang slap-stick, with which he is little, if any, funnier than many other screen comedians."^[1]

Cast

Charles Chaplin - Father
Edna Purviance - Mother
Marion Feducha - Small Boy (uncredited)
Bob Kelly - Small Boy (uncredited)
Jackie Coogan - Smallest Boy (uncredited)
Tom Wilson - Large Husband (uncredited)
Babe London - His Seasick Wife (uncredited)
Henry Bergman - Captain, Man in Car and Heavy Policeman (uncredited)
Loyal Underwood - Angry Little Man in Street (uncredited)

References

↑ http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=&title2=Day%27s%20Pleasure%2C%20A&reviewer=&v_id=61918&pdate=19191208

External links

The short film A Day's Pleasure is available for free download at the Internet Archive
A Day's Pleasure on YouTube
A Day's Pleasure at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Charlie Chaplin

Keystone Studios (1914)	Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in the Rain A Busy Day Her Friend the Bandit Mabel's Married Life Laughing Gas The Face on the Bar Room Floor Recreation The Masquerader His New Profession The Rounders The Property Man The New Janitor Those Love Pangs Dough and Dynamite Gentlemen of Nerve His Musical Career His Trysting Place Getting Acquainted His Prehistoric Past

Essanay Studios (1915)	His New Job A Night Out The Champion In the Park A Jitney Elopement The Tramp By the Sea His Regeneration Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen Police Triple Trouble

Mutual Film Corp (1916–17)	The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer

First National (1918–23)	A Dog's Life The Bond Shoulder Arms Sunnyside A Day's Pleasure The Professor The Kid The Idle Class Pay Day The Pilgrim

United Artists (1923–52)	A Woman of Paris The Gold Rush The Circus City Lights Modern Times The Great Dictator Monsieur Verdoux Limelight

Later productions	A King in New York A Countess from Hong Kong

See also	The Chaplin Revue The Freak

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