''Ma Hogan's New Boarder'' was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring

Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...

impersonator Charles Evans.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51 In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms." It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.

Cast

*C. Evans *B Gilbert *Q Cross *E. Vockler

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film." The ''Motion Picture News'' said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary.""Film News from Foreign Parts"
''Motion Picture News'' 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916

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* 1915 films Australian silent short films Lost Australian films Films directed by Raymond Longford Australian black-and-white films 1910s Australian films {{Australia-silent-film-stub