Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
Acting
Chaplin's physical comedy as BOTH genders.
Direction
Tight 23-minute farce construction.
Costume
The dress, the shave, the transformation.
Director
Charlie Chaplin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chaplin shaved his real mustache for this role — a huge deal for his brand in 1915.
This was one of several shorts where Chaplin cross-dressed, pushing boundaries in an era before the Hays Code cracked down on such content.
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