Edna Purviance

Shoulder Arms, 1918 starring Charlie Chaplin

Shoulder Arms, 1918 starring Charlie Chaplin

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Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin’s second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy set in France during World War I. The main part of the film actually occurs in a dream. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin’s elder brother. It is Chaplin’s shortest feature film as well as the first feature film… Read more →

A Woman, 1915 film starring Charlie Chaplin

A Woman, 1915 film starring Charlie Chaplin

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A Woman was Charlie Chaplin’s ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majestic Studio and released in 1915. Plot: A well-to-do family of three is asleep on a park bench. The father (Charles Insley) is awakened when a pretty girl (Margie Reiger) trips over his outstretched feet. The father is an incorrigible womanizer and… Read more →