Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp
Jackie Coogan
The Kid
Carl Miller
The Man
Edna Purviance
The Woman
Albert Austin
Car Thief / Man in Shelter (uncredited)
Beulah Bains
Bride (uncredited)
Nellie Bly Baker
Slum Nurse (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
Professor Guido / Night Shelter Keeper (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Orphan Asylum Driver (uncredited)
B.F. Blinn
Assistant (uncredited)
Kitty Bradbury
Bride's Mother (uncredited)
Frank Campeau
Welfare Officer (uncredited)Bliss Chevalier
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Frances Cochran
Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)
Jack Coogan Sr.
Pickpocket / Guest / Devil (uncredited)Estelle Cook
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Lillian Crane
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Philip D'Oench
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Dan Dillon
Bum (uncredited)Robert Dunbar
Bridegroom (uncredited)Florette Faulkner
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Gloria Faythe
Little Girl (uncredited)Rupert Franklin
Bride's Father / Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)Sadie Gordon
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
Lita Grey
Flirtatious Angel (uncredited)Frank Hale
Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)Martha Hall
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Jules Hanft
Physician (uncredited)Louise Hathaway
Extra in Alley Scene (uncredited)Silas Hathaway
The Kid as a Baby (uncredited)Flora Howard
Bridesmaid (uncredited)Ed Hunt
Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)Lulu Jenks
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)Irene Jennings
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Grace Keller
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Sarah Kernan
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Raymond Lee
His Kid Brother (uncredited)Walter Lynch
Tough Cop (uncredited)V. Madison
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Clyde McAtee
Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)Michael J. McCarthy
Extra (Angel) Heaven & (Cook) Alley Scene (uncredited)John McKinnon
Chief of Police (uncredited)Ethel O'Neil
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
Lew Parker
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)Charles I. Pierce
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Laura Pollard
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)Evans Quirk
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)
Esther Ralston
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
Granville Redmond
The Man's Friend (uncredited)Henry Roser
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)J.B. Russell
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)George V. Sheldon
Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited)Edgar Sherrod
Priest (uncredited)Elsie Sindora
Bridesmaid (uncredited)Minnie Stearns
Fierce Woman (uncredited)Arthur Thalasso
Car Thief with Gun (uncredited)Edith Valk
Lady with Baby Carriage (uncredited)May White
Edna's Maid (uncredited)S.D. Wilcox
Cop (uncredited)Edith Wilson
Baby in Carriage (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Policeman (uncredited)Amanda Yanez
Extra in Alley Scene (uncredited)Baby Yanez
Extra in Alley Scene (uncredited)Elsie Young
Extra in Wedding Scene (uncredited)
Released
en
$250,000.00
$5,450,000.00
- #angel
- #suicide attempt
- #fistfight
- #slapstick comedy
- #black and white
- #class differences
- #foundling
- #silent film
- #dream sequence
- #semi autobiographical
- #car theft
- #illegitimate child
- #unwed mother
- #abandoned baby
- #out of wedlock child
Reviews
An impoverished woman (Edna Purviance) feels compelled to abandon her child in the hope that he might find a better life - so she leaves him (with a short note) in the back of a car. The two men who find the little bundle don't want anything to do with him, so plonk him down behind some rubbish where de is discovered by the tramp (Charlie Chaplin). Now he's not that keen on children either, but th
If you enjoy this review, please check out my blog, Old Hat Cinema, at https://oldhatcinema.medium.com/ for more reviews and other cool content. Two Little Tramps The most amazing thing about Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid is that it was released in January of 1921. That makes this film 100 years old! A century has gone by since it was made, released, and first viewed, and yet it’s still availabl
Cute and funny. It is difficult to say anything new from this movie or Charles Chaplin. He just delivers a complete story with a lot of different elements. Remarkable is also the performance of Jackie Coogan.