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Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915)

Ma Hogan's New Boarder poster
Directed by
Raymond Longford
Genre
silent film
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man impersonating Charlie Chaplin moves in as a boarder and performs comic antics and mannerisms. The movie is a silent comedy from 1915 that is now lost.

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What happens

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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