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      • Edna Purviance (born October 21, 1895?, Paradise Valley, Nevada, U.S.—died January 13, 1958, near Hollywood, California) was an American movie actress of the silent film era, who played opposite Charlie Chaplin in more than 30 films, including such classic short works as The Tramp (1915), Easy Street (1917), and The Immigrant (1917).
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  2. In her posthumously published memoir, actress Georgia Hale, who played opposite Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925), reported that Chaplin always spoke affectionately of Purviance. Hale relates Chaplin’s account of an incident during the silent film era, when Chaplin and Purvience—he in “an old sweatshirt” and she in “a cotton house dress ...

  3. Apr 23, 2024 · Edna Purviance was an American movie actress of the silent film era, who played opposite Charlie Chaplin in more than 30 films, including such classic short works as The Tramp (1915), Easy Street (1917), and The Immigrant (1917). She also starred with Chaplin in the feature-length film The Kid.

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  4. Indeed, “only once did Chaplin depart from his usual form of expression in 1923 with the single dramatic venture, A Woman of Paris.” Edna Purviance plays the lead as Marie St. Clair. One of Chaplin's reasons for producing the film was to help Purviance gain recognition as an actress without Chaplin at her side.

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  5. Chaplin demonstrating to Edna Purviance how he would like a scene to be played. He found ideal interpreters for his ideas in the brilliant Adolphe Menjou and in Edna Purviance, with her long experience of interpreting Chaplins ideas. They play their roles with miraculous subtlety, and an understatement that was unprecedented at this time.

  6. First published book about Edna Purviance's lost film The Sea Gull and working on second book about Edna, featuring her life and family, and years with Charlie Chaplin. A look at Edna Purviance, silent movie star and leading lady for 34 Charlie Chaplin films from 1915-1923.

  7. Jan 11, 2022 · Chaplin, then 75, admitted that if he was the poet, Edna was his muse. His was a love story with a bittersweet ending, like so many Chaplin films. Edna Purviance was Charlie Chaplin's first great love, and although the relationship did not last, each carried the other's torch until their own death.

  8. Edna Purviance was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada October 21, 1895. She was Charlie Chaplin Leading Lady from 1915 to 1923.

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