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Chaplin, Charlie: Edna Purviance
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Charlie Chaplins 52nd Film Released June 12 1916. The Fireman was the second film Charlie Chaplin created for Mutual Films in 1916. Released in June 1916, it starred Charlie as the fireman and Edna Purviance as the daughter to Leo White. Leo White played a character trying to arrange with Eric Campbell (the fire chief) to have his house burn down so he could collection the insurance money. Shows some early day street scenes in the surrounding Los Angeles area.
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In February of 1915, Charlie Chaplin began work for Essanay, with greater control over his films than ever before - but not enough to avoid 'creative differences' with his bosses at Essanay. However, another milestone occurs at the same time - he meets Edna Purviance, who was to be his leading lady for many of his films, as well as an off-again, on-again romance.
As for Charlie, he would only return once to the States in 1972 to receive his special Academy Award Oscar with Oona at his side all the way. All the people who worked with Chaplin showed up in either New York or Los Angeles to see him, including his former co-stars Jackie Coogan, Clarie Bloom and Georgia Hale. Edna Purviance would have been there too, if she were alive.
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"The Kid" was Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length film and has the Little Tramp finding an abandoned baby in an alleyway trashcan. Five years later, Chaplin becomes a glazier, and the kid (now played by Jackie Coogan) helps him get work by breaking windows. But when Edna Purviance, the youngster's opera singer mother, wants him back, Charlie fights the authorities to keep him. 50 min. Standard; Soundtracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono music score; Subtitles: English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, French; deleted scenes; home movie; photo gallery; poster gallery; theatrical trailers. Silent with music score. Two-disc set.
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The legendary silent movie of manners, mores and morals, A Woman of Paris was the first Charlie Chaplin film in which he did not appear. Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) believes she has been jilted by her artist fiancé Jean (Carl Miller) when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, (Adolphe Menjou) she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces back and forth between apparent security and true love.
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After three marriages that didn't work out, Charlie's final marriage realized his ideal girl and love of his life in Oona O'Neill. While Edna was Chaplin's ideal girl on the silver screen, it was Oona who became his ideal girl in real life.
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