Olga Edna Purviance was an American actress of the silent film era.
17 Facts About Edna Purviance
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Edna Purviance was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him.
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Edna Purviance was born in October 21,1895, in Paradise Valley, Nevada, United States of America, to English immigrant Louisa Wright Davey and American vintner to the western mining camps Madison Gates Purviance.
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Edna Purviance's parents divorced in 1902, and her mother later married Robert Nurnberger, a German plumber.
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Edna Purviance left Lovelock in 1913 and moved in with her married sister Bessie while attending business college in San Francisco.
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In 1915, Purviance was working as a secretary in San Francisco when actor and director Charlie Chaplin was working on his second film with Essanay Studios, working out of Niles, California, 28 miles southeast of San Francisco, in Southern Alameda County.
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Edna Purviance was looking for a leading lady for A Night Out.
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Chaplin and Edna Purviance were romantically involved during the making of his Essanay, Mutual, and First National films of 1915 to 1917.
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The romance ended suddenly when Edna Purviance read a newspaper report of Chaplin having married 16-year-old Mildred Harris.
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Edna Purviance appeared in 33 of Chaplin's productions, including the 1921 The Kid.
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Edna Purviance's last credited appearance in a Chaplin film, A Woman of Paris, was her first leading role.
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Edna Purviance appeared in two more films: Sea Gulls, known as A Woman of the Sea and Education de Prince, a French film released in 1927.
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For more than 30 years afterward, Edna Purviance lived quietly outside Hollywood.
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Edna Purviance married John Squire, a Pan-American Airlines pilot, in 1938.
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Edna Purviance received a small monthly salary from Chaplin's film company until she got married, and the payments resumed after her husband's death.
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Edna Purviance's remains are interred at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Edna Purviance was portrayed by Penelope Ann Miller in the film Chaplin and by Katie Maguire in the film Madcap Mabel.