A Dog's Life

For other uses, see Dog's Life (disambiguation).

A Dog's Life
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Charlie Chaplin
Produced by	Charlie Chaplin
Written by	Charlie Chaplin
Starring	Charlie Chaplin Edna Purviance Syd Chaplin Henry Bergman Charles Reisner Albert Austin Tom Wilson
Music by	Charlie Chaplin (in 1957 released as part of The Chaplin Revue)
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh
Edited by	Charlie Chaplin (uncredited)
Distributed by	First National Pictures Inc.
Release dates	April 14, 1918 (1918-04-14)
Running time	33 min.
Country	US
Language	Silent film English (original intertitles)

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.

Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.^[1]

Charles Lapworth, a former newspaper editor who had met Chaplin when he interviewed him, took a role as a consultant on the film.^[2]

Cast

Charlie Chaplin - The Tramp
Edna Purviance - Bar singer
Mut - Scraps, a thoroughbred mongrel
Syd Chaplin - Lunchwagon owner
Henry Bergman - Fat unemployed man/Dance-hall lady
Charles Reisner - Employment agency clerk
Albert Austin - Employment agency clerk / Thief
Bud Jamison - Thief
Tom Wilson - Policeman
M. J. McCarthy - Unemployed man
Mel Brown - Unemployed man
Charles Force - Unemployed man
Bert Appling - Unemployed man
Thomas Riley - Unemployed man
Slim Cole - Unemployed man
Ted Edwards - Unemployed man
Louis Fitzroy - Unemployed man

Stills

References

↑ Review and synopsis "A cinema history". Retrieved 31 March 2014.
↑ Tom Stempel, Framework: a history of screenwriting in the American film, p.33

External links

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A Dog's Life at the Internet Movie Database
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alternate lobby poster
A Dog's Life is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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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