Edna Purviance Movies

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of...

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

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's...

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter,...

Features four films made for the Mutual Film Company: The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, and Behind the Screen. Includes new digital stereo scores...

Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his clips.

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...

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the...

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio....

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....

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

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

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

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