Edna Purviance
Birthday: 1895-10-19
Place of Birth: Paradise Valley, Nevada, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 11, 1958) was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.
Movies
The Rink
After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating....
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The Pawnshop
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric custo...
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The Count
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later...
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The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan...
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The Tramp
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm a...
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The Adventurer
The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persec...
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The Vagabond
A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous comp...
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo...
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The Idle Class
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, ...
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The Champion
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training c...
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Easy Street
A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a pas...
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The Immigrant
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in ...
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A Jitney Elopement
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Co...
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A Night Out
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds him...
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In the Park
A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and...
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By the Sea
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edn...
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Work
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The ho...
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A Woman
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a h...
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The Bank
A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too....
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Shanghaied
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tr...
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A Night in the Show
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is...
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Police
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convi...
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A Burlesque on Carmen
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run....
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The Floorwalker
An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot...
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The Fireman
Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on...
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Behind the Screen
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring a...
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The Cure
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos....
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Triple Trouble
As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept ...
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The Bond
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to he...
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Shoulder Arms
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enem...
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Sunnyside
An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle....
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A Day's Pleasure
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial....
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The Pilgrim
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church....
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A Woman of the Sea
Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to...
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Limelight
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again fee...
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Chaplin's Goliath
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie C...
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Birth of the Tramp
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall succ...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...
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Chaplin Carnival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: Behind the Screen, The Count, The Fireman, and The Vagabond, presente...
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Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp
Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his ...
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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...
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The Chaplin Revue
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together...
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The Charlie Chaplin Festival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, and Easy Street, presented w...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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The Chaplin Cavalcade
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: One A.M., The Rink, The Pawnshop, and The Floorwalker, presented with...
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Chaplin Today: The Kid
This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released i...
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Chase Me Charlie
Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made ...
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Charlie's Triple Trouble
British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple ...
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A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)....
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Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay
Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essa...
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The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
Features four films made for the Mutual Film Company: The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, and Behi...
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How to Make Movies
This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for f...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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