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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 921

A Woman

191526 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 22:55
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

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Synopsis

Charlie quarrels with a flirtatious father in the park, then wins an invitation home from the man's wife and daughter. Recognition leads to another fight and a hurried change into women's clothes. With the daughter's help, he sustains the disguise long enough to expose how quickly the father's hostility changes when he believes a new woman has entered the room.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Charles Inslee

Marta Golden

Edna Purviance

Leo White

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Historical context

The costume change turns an intruder into an object of attention without altering the person underneath. Chaplin uses the disguise to redirect a domestic power struggle and reveal the father's contradictory behavior.

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Photograph credit

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Charles Chaplin — Strauss-Peyton Studio, 1921; published in Photoplay no. 3 (1922); National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Charles Inslee — free-classic-movies.com; free-classic-movies.com · Public domain
Edna Purviance — Unknown photographer, 1923; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 8372 / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Leo White — Witzel; Photoplay Magazine March, 1917; pg. 24 https://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume11112chic#page/378/mode/2up · Public domain

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