Ma Hogan's New Boarder
1915 Australian film
- 1 July 1915 (1915-07-01)[1]
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Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.[6] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."[7]
It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.[8]
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."[9]
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."[10]
References
- ^ "Advertising". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ^ "Bound printed copy of Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia (one of two copies)". National Archives of Australia. NAA: A11636, 4/1. p. 145.
- ^ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. 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, retrieved 23 November 1916
External links
- Ma Hogan's New Boarder at IMDb
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Films directed by Raymond Longford
- 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)
- 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)
- Waltzing Matilda (1933) (assoc director)
- Diggers in Blighty (1933) (assoc director)
- The Hayseeds (1933) (assoc director)
- Splendid Fellows (1934) (assoc director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)
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