Acting

Edna Purviance

Born October 19, 1895 · Paradise Valley, Nevada, USA

Died January 11, 1958 · aged 62

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.

Known For

Limelight

Limelight · 1952

MovieRomanceDrama

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

The Kid

The Kid · 1921

MovieComedyDrama

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux · 1947

Monsieur Verdoux

MovieComedyCrime

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

The Tramp

The Tramp · 1915

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life · 1918

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

The Champion

The Champion · 1915

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate · 1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Pay Day

Pay Day · 1922

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

Filmography

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Limelight

Limelight · 1952

MovieRomanceDrama

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Mrs. Parker (uncredited)

The Kid

The Kid · 1921

MovieComedyDrama

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

The Woman

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux · 1947

Monsieur Verdoux

MovieComedyCrime

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Garden Party Guest (uncredited)

The Tramp

The Tramp · 1915

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.

Farmer's Daughter

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life · 1918

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Bar Singer (uncredited)

The Champion

The Champion · 1915

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

Trainer's Daughter

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate · 1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Marie St. Clair

Pay Day

Pay Day · 1922

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

Foreman's Daughter

Shanghaied

Shanghaied · 1915

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

Daughter of the Shipowner

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim · 1923

MovieComedyWestern

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Miss Brown, the Girl

Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms · 1918

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

The Girl

A Woman

A Woman · 1915

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

Daughter of the House

The Bank

The Bank · 1915

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

Secretary

The Count

The Count · 1916

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…

Miss Moneybags

The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue · 1959

The Chaplin Revue

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

Various (archive footage)

The Idle Class

The Idle Class · 1921

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

Edna the Neglected Wife

The Rink

The Rink · 1916

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

The Girl

A Burlesque on Carmen

A Burlesque on Carmen · 1915

A Burlesque on Carmen

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Carmen

A Night Out

A Night Out · 1915

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

The Headwaiter's Wife

A Night in the Show

A Night in the Show · 1915

A Night in the Show

Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.

Lady in the Stalls with Beads

Triple Trouble

Triple Trouble · 1918

As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.

Maid

Easy Street

Easy Street · 1917

MovieComedyAction

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.

The Mission Worker

The Immigrant

The Immigrant · 1917

MovieComedyRomance

A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Immigrant

By the Sea

By the Sea · 1915

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.

Man in Top Hat's Sweetheart