Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51 In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."
It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
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."
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.""Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916
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