The Female Impersonator

IMDb link: 0004311
IMDb rating: 5.9 (1,655 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Short
Director: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Cast: Chester Conklin, Charles Murray and others

Release date: 27 Aug 1914
Release year: 1914
Runtime: 13 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: fired from a job, cross dressing, man disguised as a woman, comedy of errors, slapstick comedy, dressing room, tweak, movie studio, rapped on the knuckles, soft drink

Plot:

Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.

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