Blogs about: Edna Purviance
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The Rink
Maybe I’ve seen too many of Charlie Chaplin’s short films already, or maybe just too many of them in the relatively brief span of time I’ve been writing on this blog. On a technical… more →
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The Rink
wrote 1 month ago: Maybe I’ve seen too many of Charlie Chaplin’s short films already, or maybe just too man … more →
Carmen (1915) A Silent Film Review
wrote 3 months ago: Shhh! Silent opera! Carmen may be best known as an opera but it made a successful silent debut for o … more →
Stars of Slapstick #16: Edna Purviance
wrote 7 months ago: This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Si … more →
A smile and a tear: The Kid (1921)
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wrote 7 months ago: A young, unmarried woman (Edna Purviance) gives birth in a charity hospital. Distraught and abandone … more →
The Kid
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wrote 8 months ago: Considered one of Charlie Chaplin’s best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coog … more →
The Pawnshop
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wrote 8 months ago: The Pawnshop is another of Charlie Chaplin’s short, silent films. Released in 1916, it also fe … more →
The Charlie Chaplin Festival
wrote 9 months ago: The Charlie Chaplin Festival was released in 1938, and as the name implies, it isn’t so much a … more →
Charlie’s London: Chaplin's women – part two
wrote 9 months ago: Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance This is a guest post by Ayşe Behçet for Silent London. Hi everyon … more →
Shoulder Arms
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wrote 10 months ago: How long have filmmakers been blending the genres of war movies and comedies? Released in 1918, just … more →
All Hail, Georgia, Hale That Is
wrote 11 months ago: theloudestvoice: Happy maybe-birthday Georgia Hale (June 24, 1905 (disputed?) – June 7, 1985) … more →
Charlie Chaplin: Parenting 101
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wrote 1 year ago: Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan are livin’ the American dream. You knew this day would come. … more →
The Kid (1921)
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wrote 1 year ago: The Kid, released in 1921, was Charlie Chaplin’s first feature-length film (albeit only lastin … more →
Pay Day (1922)
wrote 1 year ago: I’m certain that comedic short films are a difficult medium to create for, and they definitely … more →
The "Peppy Miller = Penelope Ann Miller?" Post of Imagery and Fact
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wrote 1 year ago: I have one main Pancake Dominion-type thought about The Artist and the character Peppy Miller, and t … more →
TSFF Preview: 1000 Laffs - Playmates
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wrote 1 year ago: You do not have a silent film fest until you bring in the clowns and Toronto Silent Film Festival wi … more →
Shoulder Arms
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wrote 1 year ago: Ring a Ding Ding Shoulder Arms (1918) The Little Tramp has never looked so well kempt as when he is … more →
The Kid
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wrote 1 year ago: Wowza! The Kid (1921) I find it difficult to think of Charlie Chaplin as an … more →
NYT on death of WDT
wrote 1 year ago: “MOVIE DIRECTOR FOUND MURDERED IN LOS ANGELES; William Desmond Taylor of The Famous Players Is … more →
Screen Stars Connected with the Taylor Case
wrote 1 year ago: Silent film director William Desmond Taylor was killed in 1922. Here is footage of a dozen silent fi … more →
