This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. Today is the birthday of Charlie Chaplin’s only true leading lady, Edna Purviance (1895-1958). Chaplin would discover the comely twenty [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:07AM on October 21, 2012