Georgia is not so nice
I've seen this movie a number of times over the years, and I've always loved it, but watching it again this evening it struck me anew how mean Georgia is to Charlie. Dancing with him to spite Jack isn't so bad, but setting up Charlie for the New Year's Eve blow-off, and play-acting with him in a romantic way, is something else again. And then at midnight on New Year's Eve, when she suggests to her friends that they all go to Charlie's cabin to torment him further, is pretty bad behavior. When they arrive at the cabin, and she realizes that he went to all that trouble and prepared a real party for everyone, she finally softens a bit. Finally!
Okay, it was the '20s, and I guess Chaplin was trying to move beyond the sweet leading ladies of an earlier day. (He never would have cast Edna Purviance in a role like that.) But Georgia still comes off as pretty harsh.