Ma Hogan's New Boarder Explained

Ma Hogan's New Boarder
Director:Raymond Longford
Producer:Archie Fraser
Colin Fraser
Based On:story by A. Wright[1]
Starring:Charles Evans
Pearl Bambury[2]
Studio:Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company
Runtime:2,500 feet[3]
Language:Silent film
English intertitles
Country:Australia

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.[4] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."[5]

It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.[6]

Cast

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film."[7]

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."[8]

Notes and References

  1. "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  2. News: AMUSEMENT. . . NSW . 10 August 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: Advertising. . . NSW . 10 August 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  4. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
  5. News: AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN. . . Sydney . 27 June 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 16 . National Library of Australia.
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=gkC-Eo7GsxMC&dq=%22ma%20hogan's%20new%20boarder%22&pg=PA14 Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978
  7. News: Advertising. . . Sydney . 27 June 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  8. https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew132unse#page/1446/mode/2up/search/australia "Film News from Foreign Parts"