Edna Purviance
Marie St. Clair
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A Woman of Paris is a feature-length American silent film that debuted in 1923. A United Artists production, the film was an atypical drama film for its creator, written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate.
- $634,000 (US/Canada)
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin
A 1923 silent film by Charles Chaplin about a woman torn between love and comfort. Edna Purviance stars as Marie, who meets her former fiancé in Paris and faces a dilemma of fate.
- (6K)
- Charles Chaplin
- Passed
- Drama, Romance
Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) is a desperate young woman who suspects she has been dumped by her flighty fiancé, Jean (Carl Miller), after he mysteriously stands her up at a railway station,...
- (61)
- Edna Purviance
- Charlie Chaplin
- Drama, Romance
A Woman of Paris was a romantic drama. Chaplin directing Edna Purviance in A Woman of Paris. This was not a sudden impulse. For a long time Chaplin had wanted to try his hand at directing a serious film. In the end, the inspiration for A Woman of Paris came from three women.
A young woman runs off to Paris after her fiance abandons her and falls into a life of sin. This film, directed by Charles Chaplin and starring Edna Purviance, is a classic example of silent film drama.
- Charles Chaplin, Eddie Sutherland
- Edna Purviance
Sep 10, 2012 · A Woman of Paris 1923, directed by Charles Chaplin | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Emerging after being placed on the shelf by Chaplin for almost fifty years, with a reputation as the...
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Overview. When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
