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A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.
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Charles K. French
- Jean's Father
- (as Charles French)
Nellie Bly Baker
- Masseuse
- (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
- Head Waiter
- (uncredited)
Charles Chaplin
- Station Porter
- (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr.
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
- Man in Nightclub
- (uncredited)
Stella De Lanti
- Revel's Fiancée
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Jean de Limur
- Man in Nightclub
- (uncredited)
Charles Farrell
- Man in Nightclub
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Mannequin
- (uncredited)
Karl Gutman
- Orchestra Conductor
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe reissue of this film, with a musical score and new cut by Sir Charles Chaplin, was the last work of his entire film career. By then, the 87-year-old Chaplin was visibly frail but still walking. His score was aided by arranger Eric James, and he took a small theme from Monsieur Verdoux (1947), but most of the score was Chaplin's. The film was reissued posthumously in 1977 with the new score to overwhelming critical and public praise. At that time, many critics praised it (as in the trailer) as one of the best films ever made.
- Quotes
[Intertitle]: Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.
- Alternate versionsDuring 1976, Chaplin was preparing a reissue of A Woman of Paris/Sunnyside but died before completion. The project was completed after his death, and the films were reissued in the United States by Kino International Corp. in 1978. This version, however, dispensed with an opening subtitle, as well as a few brief insert shots.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chaplin Today: Modern Times (2003)
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Graceful, elegant photography and concise storytelling are made imperfect by missing narrative elements that would have made the film more plausible.
Finally saw Woman of Paris: this was a legendary film in its day, but mostly because it was virtually never re-released for sixty years after it premiered in 1923, so the legend grew in its absence. The parts of the story that were not told would have made a better movie than the movie, for example why the lovers' fathers at the beginning of the film are against the marriage, and how Marie (Edna Purviance) became a (shudder) "Woman of Paris" during the year following her departure from her fiance. So I didn't buy the story but the camera work and editing do marvelous things with the story that is there. The melodramatic climax is a bit much to be believed, but not comical as a lot of silent mellers appear today. A little D.W. Griffith (sophisticated early use of photography to tell story and set mood), a little Tolstoy ("bad woman" story contrasted with storyteller's emphasis on happy marriages and wholesome family life), a touch of Dreiser ("sinful" characters shown with realistic insight) and I'd guess a soupcon of Terrence Ratigan (sophisticated attitudes) but I doubt he was around then. The ad copy for this film says Chaplin has a cameo as a railway porter but I didn't notice one in the train scene: I suspect instead he was the ticket agent whose hand appears pointing out the ticket window toward the train. Altogether a satisfying and entertaining film, but the story would have been better if Chaplin had worked on it a little longer.
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- $351,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $12,921
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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