Beautiful slim brunette comedienne Vivian Edwards was born in Los Angeles in 1896. Entered the movies as an extra then made her mark as one of the Goo Goo Sisters in The Property Man (1914) starring Charles Chaplin in 1914. Vivian, also known as Viva Edwards, starred and supported in at least 50 Keystone comedies between 1914-16, often appeared with Chaplin, including The Masquerader (1914), Dough and Dynamite (1914), and Those Love Pangs (1914), and also play Mack Swain's wife Pansy Ambrose in the 'Willful Ambrose (1915)' comedies in 1915-16. She left Keystone at the end of 1916 and moved to the Triangle Film Co in early 1917 often starring opposite Harry McCoy in many short comedies. Married film director Bryan Foy in 1926 until her death in 1949 age 53.

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Vivian Edwards

Actress