It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell.

The film also stars Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, and Leo White.

Ms. Purviance was also the next door neighbor of William Desmond Taylor.

Chaplin also commissioned him to write and direct A Woman of the Sea ( also known as The Sea Gull ), starring his former star and lover Edna Purviance, but this film was later destroyed by Chaplin.

Behind the Screen is a 1916 short silent film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance.

Meanwhile, a neglected wife ( Edna Purviance ) leaves her wealthy husband ( also played by Chaplin ) until he gives up drinking.

Besides deleted scenes and alternate takes, a number of blooper takes were also featured, showing Chaplin laughing ( and sometimes getting angry ) when scenes go awry, and similar breakdowns involving his co-stars, particularly Edna Purviance who is shown in several clips breaking into laughter and, in one, playing a joke on another actress during the filming of a scene.

The now lost film starred Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Eve Southern and Charles French, and was directed by Josef von Sternberg.

It starred Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged marriage her father ( played by Fred Goodwins ) had planned for her.

It starred Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Leo White.

This plot was abandoned almost immediately, before Chaplin's character was introduced, the documentary states, and Chaplin began again, with a story, still set in a cafe, about a man who has never been in a restaurant before displaying terrible table manners before meeting a lovely girl ( Purviance ) and shaping up.

Chaplin's stock company at Essanay included Ben Turpin, who disliked working with the meticulous Chaplin and only appeared with him in a couple of films ; ingenue Edna Purviance, who became his off-screen sweetheart as well ; Leo White, almost always playing a fussy continental villain ; and all-purpose authority figures Bud Jamison and John Rand.

Purviance appeared in 33 of Chaplin's productions, including the 1921 classic The Kid.

Rumors have persisted that Chaplin's 1915-1923 leading lady Edna Purviance made an

Despite this attempt, Edna Purviance was never able to achieve the level of success that she had in films with Chaplin's Tramp at her side.

The documentary series Unknown Chaplin revealed previously unseen footage from this movie, including an alternate take where Purviance's character is shown playing a harp, an outtake in which Edna, playing the guitar, starts laughing ( the documentary supports the belief that Purviance and Chaplin were romantically involved at the time ), and several takes of a scene in which Chaplin's character narrowly misses having his feet chopped off by an axe ( accomplished by filming the scene backwards ) -- this scene was never used in the final film.

Edna Purviance plays Chaplin's wife and Jackie Coogan one of the kids.

It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother.

* Edna Purviance as The Woman

The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance.

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.

Chaplin had several reasons for producing this film, and one of these reasons was to help Purviance gain recognition as an actress without Chaplin at her side.

A sixth minister joined the Presbytery when it ordained David Purviance, whom the West Lexington Presbytery had refused to ordain.

He married Alice Holstein May on 8 June 1892 in Washington DC, and had two sons, Henry Courtenay Fenn, well-known American China scholar and architect of Yale University's Chinese language program, more commonly known as H. C. Fenn, ( February 26, 1894-July 1978 ), and William Purviance Fenn ( born 1902 ).

Chaplin produced the film as a starring vehicle for his former leading lady Purviance, and to help establish Von Sternberg, whose 1924 experimental film The Salvation Hunters had greatly impressed Chaplin.

Chaplin and Edna Purviance, his frequent leading lady, in Work ( 1915 film ) | Work ( 1915 )

Chaplin intended it as a star-making vehicle for Edna Purviance, and did not appear in the picture himself other than in a brief, uncredited cameo.

Chaplin and Purviance in the memorable restaurant scene

In 1915 Edna Purviance was working as a secretary in San Francisco, when Chaplin was working on his second film with Essanay Studios, working out of Niles, California, one hour southeast of San Francisco.

Chaplin and Purviance were romantically involved during the making of his Essanay, Mutual, and First National films of 1915 – 1917.

Although she was romantically involved with Chaplin for several years, Purviance eventually married John Squire, a Pan-American Airlines pilot, whom she wed in 1938 and who died in 1945.

Chaplin biographer David Robinson wrote that Purviance did return briefly to the Chaplin Studios and prepared for a small role in the film, but that she did not go before the cameras.

She subsequently appeared in a number of other theatrical movies, notably as Edna Purviance in Chaplin in 1992 and with Al Pacino in Carlito's Way in 1993.

At the time Dines was romantically involved with Normand's friend ( and frequent Chaplin co-star ) Edna Purviance.

Much of the film is slapstick comedy involving Chaplin manhandling large props, but other plotlines include a strike by the stagehands, and Purviance, who is unable to become an actress, dressing as a man and becoming a stagehand.

Chaplin kissing Purviance in " Behind the Screen "

After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a woman, he kisses her while on the set ; at this point, a male stagehand enters and, thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him.

Famous actors from this era are now legendary: Ben Turpin, Mabel Normand, Edna Purviance, Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy ( the duo of Laurel & Hardy were among those who made a commercially successful transition into talking pictures ), and many others.

In San Francisco he recruited a leading lady — Edna Purviance.

* October 21 – Edna Purviance, American actress ( d. 1958 )

Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence ( in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie ) that she became physically ill.

Along the way, he befriends another unnamed immigrant ( Purviance ) who is traveling to America with her ailing mother.

Initially, the movie began as a comedy set in an artists cafe, with Purviance as a brightly dressed patron.

West Lebanon was laid out and platted in the fall of 1830 by Ebenezer Purviance, John G. Jemison and Andrew Fleming, and consisted of 64 lots.

There are references to some of his many romantic episodes ( including Hetty Kelly, Mildred Harris, Georgia Hale, Marion Davies, Edna Purviance, Lita Grey, Paulette Goddard, Joan Barry and Oona O ' Neill ), his professional collaboration with Mack Sennett and friendship with Douglas Fairbanks.

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Edna Purviance ( October 21, 1895-January 11, 1958 ) was an American actress during the silent movie era.

Edna Purviance ( pronounced Purr-VYE-ance ) was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada, to Louis and Madison Gates Purviance.

Growing up, Purviance was a talented pianist.

He was looking for a leading lady for A Night Out, and one of his associates noticed Purviance at a Tate's Café in San Francisco and thought she should be cast in the role.