A Woman (1915)

Directed by: Charles Chaplin | 20 minutes | comedy, short film | Actors: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger, Billy Armstrong, Leo White

While strolling through the park, Charlie meets two ladies, mother and daughter. The ladies are so enamored with Charlie that they invite him home. Of course Charlie will come along. On the screen appears: There’s no place like home so Charlie went there with the ladies. In this film, Charlie supports his images remarkably often with these kinds of funny statements. For example, if he wants to sit on a bench in the park, he asks the woman: ‘May I sit on the bit you’re not using?’ Once home with the women, Charlie takes it. He enjoys a drink and chats with the ladies. But then father comes home. Charlie runs upstairs in shock and dresses up as a woman. A great scene. In the short film ‘A Woman’ – which Charlie Chaplin himself wrote and directed – Chaplin appears for the first time in a film without a mustache. That alone makes this film worth watching.