The Idle Class is a 1921 American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin for First National Pictures.

Helen Rockwell of the New York Telegraph wrote, "...instead of going for a five-reel affair, he has returned to his first short love.

The film took five months to complete, an amazingly long time for a two-reel comedy.” Vance speculates, “It is perhaps ironic that the story of The Idle Class centers on an unhappy marriage between an absent-minded husband and a lonely wife.

In the film Chaplin manages to dramatize the two sides of his own personality: Charlie the Tramp and the Absent-minded husband, rich and neglectful, absorbed to his own interests and indifferent to others.

The latter was certainly how Mildred Harris [his first wife] regarded Chaplin.”[2] This article about a short silent comedy film is a stub.