Ma Hogan's New Boarder

Ma Hogan's New Boarder
Directed by	Raymond Longford
Produced by	Archie Fraser Colin Fraser
Written by	Raymond Longford
Based on	story by A. Wright^[1]
Starring	Charles Evans Pearl Bambury^[2]
Production company	Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company
Release dates	1 July 1915 (1915-07-01)^[3]
Running time	2,500 feet^[4]
Country	Australia
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.^[5] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."^[6]

It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.^[7]

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."^[8]

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."^[9]

References

↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
↑ "AMUSEMENT.". The Tamworth Daily Observer (NSW: National Library of Australia). 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "Advertising.". The Evening News (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "Advertising.". The Tamworth Daily Observer (NSW: National Library of Australia). 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
↑ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN.". The Sunday Times (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
↑ "Advertising.". The Sunday Times (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, accessed 23 November 1916

External links

Ma Hogan's New Boarder at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Raymond Longford

1910s	The Fatal Wedding (1911) The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911) Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1911) The Tide of Death (1912) The Midnight Wedding (1912) Australia Calls (1913) Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913) 'Neath Austral Skies (1913) The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914) The Swagman's Story (1914) Taking his Chance (1914) (short) Trooper Campbell (1914) (short) We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own (1915) (short) Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) (short) The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916) A Maori Maid's Love (1916) The Church and the Woman (1917) The Woman Suffers (1918) The Sentimental Bloke (1919)

1920s	On Our Selection (1920) Ginger Mick (1920) Rudd's New Selection (1921) The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921) The Dinkum Bloke (1923) Australia Calls (1923) An Australian by Marriage (1923) Fisher's Ghost (1924) The Bushwhackers (1925) Peter Vernon's Silence (1926) The Pioneers (1926) Sunrise (1926) Hills of Hate (1926)

1930s	The Hayseeds (1933) (asst director) Splendid Fellows (1934) (asst director) The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)

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