Chaplin had twice previously donned female attire at Keystone, in A Busy Day and The Masqerader. A WOMAN was Chaplin's last and finest female impersonation, a then-popular device (Julian Eltinge built a career and fortune on it) which many comedians assayed. The first haldf of the film is a typical park comedy, with the Tramp the cause of the havoc. The second half requires Charlie to disguise himself as a lady in order to be near Edna, his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.In Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom
Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of "His New Job" to the brilliant pantomimist of "A Night Out," "The Champion," "The Tramp" and "Shanghaied" to the profound satirist of "Police."
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