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	Edna Purviance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 11, 1958) was an American actress during the silent movie era.
		Edna Purviance was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada to Louise and Madison Gates Purviance.
		Chaplin had tremendous affection for Purviance, (who never married, and who lived quietly in Hollywood for 30 years after her retirement from films}, and he kept her on his payroll until her death from cancer on January 13, 1958, at the age of 62.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edna_Purviance (464 words)

	Edna Purviance - March 25, 1922
		At last Edna outgrew the form of education they provided in Lovelock and the first thing that was known she was speeding eastward and then the local papers carried headlines about her entrance inoto Vassar.
		Then when Edna was almost eighteen years of age she took a little trip to San Francisco, the distance being just far enough for an over-night ride, for the purpose of bolstering up her wardrobe, the main mission being a new Easter hat.
		Edna had a bigger part to play and it called for some emotional work and she performed in such a manner as to cause glowing criticisms to be published about her.
	www.hollywoodtimemachine.com /edna.htm (997 words)

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		Edna reached over to where an enormous bouquet of yard-long-stemmed pink roses stood at the foot of her bed and broke off one, then settled herself cozily again, tailor-fashion, and gazed dreamily out of the window at the myriad of New York sky-scrapers.
		Edna was Chaplin's foil in his first rioting two-reelers, and she was his leading lady in his last and greatest picture, "The Kid." In between lies a period of years in which, admittedly, there have been Chaplin pictures without Edna, but very few.
		Edna says that during the making of the play Charlie would say, "Now if this happened to you in real life, what would you do?" She would answer conscientiously and then be told to go ahead and do it.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor66.txt (15727 words)

	© Edna Purviance - Silent Film Actress, Comedienne - goldensilents.com
		Edna, her mother, and two sisters moved to Lovelock, Nevada and ran a boarding house after Edna's father divorced her mother when she was a child.
		Edna played the piano professionally, enjoyed art and literature, and after graduating from high school in 1913 prepared to be a stenographer.
		Edna challenged him on his claim, and she came forward to be "hypnotized".
	www.goldensilents.com /comedy/ednapurviance.html (513 words)

	biography of Edna Purviance, leading lady of Charlie Chaplin
		Edna was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada in 1895.
		Edna pretended to be hypnotised by him, after betting Charlie that he couldn't hypnotize her.
		Edna was not a great actress, and that in fact was the secret of her success.
	www.clown-ministry.com /History/Chaplin/edna-purviance.html (1125 words)

	Edna Purviance, Nevada's Forgotten Movie Star, by David W. Toll
		Edna was his leading lady in The Tramp, in which he firmly established the persona of the little fellow with the ragged clothes and heart of gold.
		Edna was the farmer's daughter Charlie rescued from the gang of thugs, and when they shot him, she nursed him back to life.
		Edna had read the morning papers, and as Charlie passed her dressing room she appeared at the door.
	www.nevadaweb.com /nevadaca/edna.html (3203 words)

	Bio for Edna Purviance on MSN Movies
		It is literally impossible to discuss the acting career of Edna Purviance without invoking the name of Charles Chaplin.
		Purviance was a secretary in San Francisco when she was selected by Chaplin to play his leading lady in his second Essanay short, A Night Out (1915).
		Edna Purviance remained on Chaplin's payroll until the day she died; it has been written that she appeared as an extra in Chaplin's final American feature, Limelight (1952), but this is not borne out by either the production call sheets or by the film itself.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=140427 (236 words)

	Edna Purviance Tribute at Classic Movie Stars
		Olga Edna Purviance was born on October 21, 1895 in Paradise, Nevada.
		Edna moved away from comedies and acted in her first dramatic role in "A Woman of Paris" (1926).
		The movie did not do well at the box office nor did it help her career as a dramatic actress.
	www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/edna.html (154 words)

	Edna Purviance 2
		They finished their last film for National, The Pilgrim, two years later and Charlie decided that Edna, at twenty-nine, was past her prime as far as comedy went.
		She was a lonely widow who'd long since given up the idea of acting, but Charlie generously kept her on his payroll at a very comfortable salary until her death in 1958.
		Edna Purviance; Nevada's Forgotten Movie Star More about Edna's early days from one of Nevada's leading writers, David Toll.
	www.hauntednevada.com /edna2.html (363 words)

	Edna Purviance, Nevada's Forgotten Movie Star, by David W. Toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Edna Purviance, who starred with Charlie Chaplin in the pictures that elevated him into the first rank among movie stars, is now almost forgotten here.
		As if to finish off her career completely, Edna was suddenly involved in one of the Hollywood scandals that made headlines across the country.
		Indeed, our Edna was the farmer's daughter who nursed Chaplin's "little tramp" to life, and the one constant friend through all the years of woman-trouble, talkie-trouble and politics-trouble.
	www.nevadatravel.net /features/newedna.html (3194 words)

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		Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter (Edna Purviance), is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen.
		Nearby Edna's mother is drowning and her 'strong man' beau is afraid to rescue her.
		Charlie rescues Edna, then (unwillingly) her mother, and is then nearly drowned by her suitor.
	limelightfilms.com /atsumu/distribution/chaplin_pack.html (1657 words)

	Behind the Screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Behind the Screen is a 1916 short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, who also starred along with Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance.
		Much of the film is slapstick comedy, but other issues are also brought up, such as a stagehand strike, as well as a plotline in which Purviance, unable to become an actress, dresses as a man and becomes a stagehand.
		After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a man, he kisses her while on the set.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Behind_the_Screen (247 words)

	Silent Era: Archive: Photoplay: December 1915: Edna Purviance
		WHEN I told Edna Purviance that she was to be magazined as The Star Soubrette of the Movies she pouted just a bit.
		Four hours later, Edna Purviance was standing in front of a camera at the Niles studio, and little King Charlie was giving her her first direction as a film actress.
		Miss Purviance regrets that thus far in her career she has never had a chance to wear modish gowns and says that she won’t be actually happy until such an opportunity comes to her.
	www.silentera.com /archive/photoplay/1915/1215/1215-42.html (1150 words)

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		Nearby, Edna's mother is drowning and her beau is afraid to rescue her.
		Charlie rescues Edna and her mother and is nearly drowned by her suitor.
		Later on, Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, the Count, and three policemen.
	www.alfredsplace.com /chaplin.htm (7228 words)

	Edna Purviance
		She was a young Nevada girl who'd recently left Lovelock, her small hometown, to live in the excitement of San Francisco; he was a handsome British import perched on the threshold of greatness.
		In later years Charlie would claim that Edna had broken his heart first, however she was taken completely by surprise when he married sixteen year old Mildred Harris.
		Edna's heart was broken, and she turned to alcohol for solace.
	www.hauntednevada.com /edna1.html (337 words)

	ChiaroScuro DVD-Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the limousine Edna realizes her true feelings and makes the driver return to Charlie, whom she excitedly hauls off to the limousine and to a presumed life of luxury.
		His boss, Eric Campbell, has entered into an unhanded deal with the wealthy father of heroine Edna Purviance; the father plans to burn down his house for the insurance and split the settlement with Campbell, provided that the latter does not attempt to extinguish the blaze.
		And a darn good thing too: Purviance, also unaware of her dad's machinations, is in the house at the time it is torched.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/dvd-collection/details/page125.html (906 words)

	Edna Purviance THEN & NOW
		Contained in that paragraph were the words; "That the plaintiff has a minor daughter of the age of seven (7) years named Edna Purviance." Well you guess it, based on this document, Edna was not born in 1896.
		Edna was beautiful from early childhood and as a teen appeared in several productions.
		Edna graduated from high school on June 13, 1913 and shortly afterward made her way to the Lovelock train station and caught the train to San Francisco, California.
	jerre.com /then&now/public/adventure/val1997.html (1473 words)

	Chaplin's Leading Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All things considered, Purviance's part as the kid's mother is almost incidental to the film, necessary only in setting up the story of the tramp raising the child and his attempts to keep the him.
		Edna Pruviance's first emotional scenes, however, seemed rather stilted, even at the time of release." This may be somewhat true, but, as mentioned, her part was not a very significant one in the film, and she portrays the unwed mother very well.
		Chaplin, of course, did try to promote Purviance's dramatic capabilities by starring her in "A Woman of Affairs" in 1923, but, when it came time to make his next film, "The Gold Rush" (1925), he moved to a younger leading lady with a different look.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /articles/chaplinladiesarticle.html (2614 words)

	Edna's Place: Edna Purviance Extended Home on the Web
		Latest updates on Edna Purviance's site (ednapurviance.org), related Charlie Chaplin news and items of interest, with a sampling of my other interest over the years.
		Edna Purviance co-starred in all these films except for 'His New Job', which was Chaplin's first Essanay film made in Chicago.
		In my free time since the late 1990's, I have been researching silent film star Edna Purviance during her Lovelock, Nevada and Hollywood years and Charlie Chaplin as well, during his film and earlier years before his film career when he was traveling the US on tour.
	ednapurviance.blogspot.com (661 words)

	ClassicFlix - Details for Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection, The (Disc 6) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edna Purviance is seated on a park bench with her parents (Charles Insley and Marta Golden).
		Bored, Edna herself soon falls asleep and Father, spotting a fetching lady (Margie Reiger), chases after her.
		In the story, Charlie is in love with Edna Purviance, whose father owns a ship which he plans to have blown up for the insurance money.
	ca2.zdag.com /movieDisplay.jsp?movieID=7083&name=Essential_Charlie_Chaplin_Collection,_The_Disc_6 (460 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days
		Edna has more of a role here, and she and Charlie share their first screen kiss, though Charlie holds up a jug so we won’t see the actual smooch.
		The short is entertaining in part because it gives Edna her one “bad girl” role and she has a lot of fun tossing her head and snapping her fingers and making poor Charlie her sex slave.
		Naturally, the house is inhabited by Edna (and her husband), who ultimately identifies Charlie as her husband to allow him to escape, an act of kindness that hardly seems believable, considering she’s never laid eyes on him before.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /45/charlie.htm (4575 words)

	London Tour and Edna Purviance Collection Re-Visited
		Edna's sisters did sell Edna's Hollywood home and all her possessions were moved from the dwelling.
		Another theory is that the box was taken from Edna’s personal belongings either during her later years, when she was quite ill, or after her passing.
		There is a contract that Edna signed with Sydney Chaplin (Charlie’s brother) during the early days of the making of 'The Kid'.
	ednapurviance.org /ukitalytrip/london.html (3791 words)

	Edna Purviance -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		in full Olga Edna Purviance 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).
		In her career as a poet Edna Millay wrote verse in many different veins and of varying excellence.
		At her lightest, she wrote almost flippantly; at her most intense, she produced some of the loveliest sonnets and lyrics in American poetry.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106381 (549 words)

	A Woman of Paris - Charlie Chaplin's Forgotten Masterpiece
		Other cities exercised their puritanical censorship laws on the film, disguising any hint of immoral behaviour in the picture with cut scenes or new title cards, and in Kansas all scenes which showed people smoking were censored resulting in what must have played as a bewildering mess.
		He had long wanted to make a dramatic feature and was also able to use it as a star vehicle for Edna Purviance, his leading lady since 1915, now that he felt she was no longer quite the right person for his comedies.
		The opening scene takes place in the country village where Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) and Jean Millet (Carl Miller) are planning to elope, their relationship being against the wishes of their respective fathers.
	www.garenewing.co.uk /home/writing/paris.php (2301 words)

	Nevada Travel Network Trip Report, June 2004
		For a long time I thought Pansilee Larson and I were the only people in the world who still remembered Edna — she was Charley Chaplin's co-star in the movies that raised him to fame and fortune — but it turns out otherwise.
		Most recently she has added a Chapter on Edna's father, the peripatetic Madison G. Purviance, who divorced Edna's mother in 1902 and moved to California.
		Edna is the only one of this large Nevada`family to catch the public eye, but they were an interesting bunch, and Linda's website presents their saga in full and fascinating detail.
	www.nevadatravel.net /travelgram/04-06.html (1160 words)

	A Woman of Paris (1923)
		They plan to marry against the wishes of their parents, but when Jean's father dies while Marie is waiting at the railway station, Marie thinks he has dumped her and she heads off on her own.
		It was an attempt to make his ageing long time leading lady Edna Purviance into a star in her own right, which failed.
		Firstly, Edna Purviance's surname is mispronounced: it should rhyme with defiance.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=5093&SID=2&PID=227588 (1573 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Chaplin Revue: The Chaplin Collection
		Chaplin's long-standing leading lady, Edna Purviance, plays the put-upon saloon singer the Tramp falls for, and for a change the feeling is mutual.
		He tried to launch her onto her own career in features with 1923's A Woman of Paris, but her career was effectively over.
		While he eludes the police at a costume ball, the upper-class Edna mistakes the Tramp for her neglectful husband.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/c/chaplinrevue.shtml (3077 words)

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