Edna Purviance
Birthday: 21 October 1895, Paradise, Nevada, USA
Birth Name: Olga Edna Purviance
Height: 157 cm
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 ...Show More
Mr. Chaplin [Charles Chaplin] asked me if I would like to act in pictures with him. I laughed at the Show more
Mr. Chaplin [Charles Chaplin] asked me if I would like to act in pictures with him. I laughed at the idea, but agreed to try it. I guess he took me because I had nothing to unlearn and he could teach me in his own way. I want to tell you that I suffered untold agonies. Eyes seemed to be everywhere. I was simply frightened to death. But he had unlimited patience in directing me and teaching me. Hide
Edna Purviance's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (18)
