Movies: Edna Purviance

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife....

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films....

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero....

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now de...

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. G...

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial....

This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for forty years until he included some parts of it in his compilation 'The Chaplin Revue' in 1959....

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition....

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance....

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004....

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and t...

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)....

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s....

As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff....

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Char...

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together in the end....

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city....

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their li...

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife....

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too....