Charlie Chaplin – A Woman (1915)

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Produced by: Jess Robbins
Written by: Charlie Chaplin,
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Edna Purviance, Leo White.
Music by: Robert Israel (Kino video release).
Cinematography: Harry Ensign.
Editing by: Charlie Chaplin
Distributed by: Essanay Studios, General Film Company.
Release date(s): July 12, 1915
Running time: 20 minutes
Country: United States
Language: Silent film, English (original intertitles).

A woman was Charlie Chaplin’s ninth film for Essanay Films. Took place in Los Angeles in the study Majestic and released in 1915. The film begins with the meeting of Chaplin, Edna (Edna Purviance) and her parents in a park, the mother is played by Marta Golden and Charles Insley’s father.

In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna’s father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman in a movie. He played a woman in two Keystone films: masking and a busy day.