A Jitney Elopement
1915 ‧ Black and white/Indie film ‧ 33 mins
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A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin’s fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Purviance wanting Chaplin to take her away from an arranged marriage her father had planned for her. Wikipedia
Initial release: April 1, 1915
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Jess Robbins
Production company: Essanay Studios
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A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin’s fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Purviance wanting Chaplin to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Chaplin does take her away in a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and the large windmills still on the park’s west side. Synopsis Purviance’s father wants her to marry wealthy Count Chloride de Lime. Chaplin, Purviance’s true love, impersonates the Count at dinner. Cast: Charles Chaplin as Suitor, the Fake Count Edna Purviance as Edna Ernest Van Pelt as Edna’s father Leo White as Count Chloride de Lime, Edna’s Suitor Lloyd Bacon as Young Butler / Cop (uncredited) Paddy McGuire as Old Butler/Cop Bud Jamison as Cop with Baton Carl Stockdale as Cop Fred Goodwins (Undetermined role)
Never realized how much he looks like Harold Lloyd