Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance

Actress
Born
October 21, 1895
Died
January 11, 1958

Edna Purviance began working as a stenographer in San Francisco. Charles Chaplin invited her to join him at Essanay Studio in 1915, the year of her film debut in Chaplin's His Night Out. Over the next seven years she appeared as his leading lady in over 20 Chaplin films made by Essanay, Mutual, and…

Actress

Limelight(1952)as Mrs. Parker
Monsieur Verdoux(1947)as Garden Party Guest
Éducation de prince(1927)as La reine Liska de Silistrie
A Woman of the Sea(1926)as Joan
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate(1923)as Marie St. Clair

Self

Charlie's Life(1916)as Various

Archive Footage

Compression(1995)as Self
The Real Charlie Chaplin(2021)as Self
Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté(2020)as Self
Quand Jean devint Renoir(2017)as Immigrant
The Birth of the Tramp(2013)as Self