The Bond is a two-reel propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Loan Committee for theatrical release to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I .
34-527: Made in 1918 with Edna Purviance , Albert Austin and Sydney Chaplin , the film has a distinctive visual motif set in a simple plain black set with starkly lit simple props and arrangements. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally. That theme
68-427: A $ 3,500-per-week contract with Samuel Goldwyn . Around that same time, Normand allegedly had a miscarriage (or stillbirth ) with Goldwyn's child. Arbuckle, Normand's co-star in many films, was the defendant in three widely publicized trials for manslaughter in the 1921 death of actress Virginia Rappe . Although Arbuckle was acquitted , the scandal damaged his career and his films were banned from exhibition for
102-632: A Chaplin film, A Woman of Paris , was also her first leading role. The film was not a success and effectively ended Purviance's career. She appeared in two more films: Sea Gulls , also known as A Woman of the Sea (which Chaplin never released) and Éducation de Prince , a French film released in 1927. Purviance was peripherally involved in a scandal. She and Mabel Normand were guests of millionaire oil broker Courtland Stark Dines (1889-1945) on New Year’s Day 1924. Mabel’s chauffeur, R. C. Greer, alias Joe Kelly, got into an argument with Dines, produced
136-615: A German plumber. Growing up, Purviance was a talented pianist. She left Lovelock in 1913 and moved in with her married sister Bessie while attending business college in San Francisco. In 1915, Purviance was working as a stenographer in San Francisco when actor and director Charlie Chaplin was working on his second film with Essanay Studios , working out of Niles, California , 28 miles (45 km) southeast of San Francisco , in Southern Alameda County . He
170-483: A decline in her health, an early retirement from films in 1926 and her death in 1930 at age 36. Amabel Ethelreid Normand was born in New Brighton , New York (before it was incorporated into New York City as part of Staten Island ) on November 9, 1893. She took her name from her father's only sibling, who had died before her birth in 1892. Normand's mother, Mary "Minnie" Drury, of Providence , Rhode Island ,
204-528: A dozen subsequent films, almost always as a couple in the lead roles. At the start of 1914, Chaplin first played his Tramp character in Mabel's Strange Predicament , although it wound up being the second Tramp film released; Normand directed Chaplin and herself in the film. Later that year, Normand starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance , the first feature-length comedy. Normand
238-562: A key role in starting Chaplin's film career and acted as his leading lady and mentor in a string of films in 1914, collaborating with him as a director, co-director or co-writer. Chaplin had considerable initial difficulty adjusting to the demands of film acting, and his performance suffered for it. After his first film appearance in Making a Living , Sennett felt he had made a costly mistake. However, Normand persuaded Sennett to give Chaplin another chance, and she and Chaplin appeared together in
272-461: A revolver and shot him, not fatally. As a result some cities banned A Woman of Paris . Between Purviance's last film in 1924 and her death in 1958, Chaplin kept her on the payroll at $ 1000 a month. For more than 30 years afterward, Edna Purviance lived quietly outside Hollywood. Purviance married John Squire, a Pan-American Airlines pilot, in 1938. They remained married until his death in 1945. Chaplin kept Purviance on his payroll. She received
306-442: A short time. Since she had made some of her most notable works with him, much of Normand's output was withheld from the public as a result. Arbuckle later returned to the screen as a director and actor, but did not attain his previous popularity despite being exonerated in court. Director William Desmond Taylor formed a close relationship with Normand based on their shared interest in books. Author Robert Giroux claims that Taylor
340-709: A small monthly salary from Chaplin's film company until she got married, and the payments resumed after her husband's death. She later played bit roles in Chaplin's last two American movies, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight . “How could I forget Edna?” Chaplin responded to an interviewer after her death. "She was with me when it all began." In her posthumously published memoir , actress Georgia Hale , who played opposite Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925), reported that Chaplin always spoke affectionately of Purviance. Hale relates Chaplin’s account of an incident during
374-635: A span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him. Edna Purviance was born in October 21, 1895, in Paradise Valley, Nevada , to English immigrant Louisa Wright Davey and American vintner to the western mining camps Madison (Matt) Gates Purviance. When she was three, the family moved to Lovelock, Nevada , where they assumed ownership of the Singer Hotel. Her parents divorced in 1902, and her mother later married Robert Nurnberger,
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#1732779607881408-420: Is a significant discovery, as Normand directed the film and starred in the lead role, displaying her talents on both sides of the camera. The 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel ( Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman ) fictionalized the romance between Normand and Mack Sennett. Normand was played by Bernadette Peters and Robert Preston portrayed Sennett. Normand is played by actress Marisa Tomei in
442-523: Is credited as being the first film star to receive a pie thrown in the face . Normand opened her own film company in partnership with Sennett in 1916, based in Culver City, California . She lost the company in 1918 when its parent company, Triangle Film Corporation, experienced a massive shakeup which also had Sennett lose Keystone Studios and establish his own independent company. In 1918, as her relationship with Sennett came to an end, Normand signed
476-409: Is made explicit when Charlie meets Uncle Sam and a laborer representing industry . Charlie buys a liberty bond and the industrial laborer supplies a rifle for an American soldier. Charlie is sufficiently impressed by the result of his patriotic contribution that he reveals more funds he had hidden in his pants to buy another bond and an American Naval sailor is thus equipped with a rifle himself. There
510-769: The Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. Her film Mabel's Blunder (1914) was added to the National Film Registry in December 2009. In June 2010, the New Zealand Film Archive reported the discovery of a print of Normand's film Won in a Closet (exhibited in New Zealand under its alternate title Won in a Cupboard ), a short comedy previously believed lost. This film
544-410: The 1992 film Chaplin opposite Robert Downey, Jr. as Charles Chaplin; by Penelope Lagos in the first biopic about Normand's life, a 35-minute dramatic short film entitled Madcap Mabel (2010); and by Morganne Picard in the motion picture Return to Babylon (2013). In 2014, Normand was played on television by Andrea Deck in series 2, episode 8 of Mr Selfridge and by Kristina Thompson in
578-450: The TV series Peaky Blinders (series three, episode four), the character Tatiana Petrovna played by Gaite Jansen is said to resemble her. All short subjects directed by Charlie Chaplin . Mabel Normand Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand , was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She
612-408: The [head] waiter, waving us to a nice table by the window, where we’d be visible to all his guests. But Edna remained seated and motioned to me to be seated…[the headwaiter] said “I’m so sorry, I thought you were just common people.” Edna looked at him and said sweetly, “We want to thank you for treating us like humble people. You have just paid us the highest compliment. That will be all. Please send us
646-404: The actors' private lives: Chaplin and Purviance were romantically involved during the making of his Essanay, Mutual , and First National films of 1915 to 1917. The romance ended suddenly when Purviance read a newspaper report of Chaplin having married 16-year-old Mildred Harris . Purviance appeared in 33 of Chaplin's productions, including the 1921 The Kid . Her last credited appearance in
680-401: The age of 36. She was interred as Mabel Normand-Cody at Calvary Cemetery , Los Angeles. The date of birth listed on her crypt is incorrect. Her mother was buried in the crypt above her crypt. “We used to go to the park with a stepladder, a bucket of whitewash, and Mabel Normand, and make a picture.” — Charlie Chaplin , recalling the early days of silent filmmaking. Normand has a star on
714-506: The identity of the man who killed him. According to Kevin Brownlow and John Kobal in their book Hollywood: The Pioneers , the idea that Taylor was murdered by drug dealers was invented by Paramount Studios for publicity purposes. On the night of his murder, February 1, 1922, Normand left Taylor's bungalow at 7:45 pm in a happy mood, carrying a book he had lent her. They blew kisses to each other as her limousine drove away. Normand
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#1732779607881748-434: The silent film era, when Chaplin and Purvience—he in “an old sweatshirt” and she in “a cotton house dress”—stopped at the exclusive Riverside Inn “looking like hoboes.” The head waiter, alarmed at the couple's appearance, ushered them to the back of the restaurant: He seated [Edna and myself] behind a large pillar. While we were scanning the menu, some of the customers recognized us. The word spread like wildfire. Back rushed
782-469: The state film censorship board. However, Dines was not fatally injured; he died of a heart attack in 1945, over two decades after the shooting. Normand continued making films and was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1926 after discussions with director/producer F. Richard Jones , who had directed her at Keystone. At Roach, she made the films Raggedy Rose , The Nickel-Hopper , and One Hour Married (her last film), all co-written by Stan Laurel , and
816-591: The waiter.” On January 13, 1958, Purviance died from throat cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, aged 62. Her remains are interred at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She was portrayed by Penelope Ann Miller in the film Chaplin (1992) and by Katie Maguire in the film Madcap Mabel (2010). In
850-585: Was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man . Normand's name
884-443: Was also a British version with Uncle Sam replaced by John Bull and promotes War Bonds. This article about a war film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edna Purviance Olga Edna Purviance ( / p ɜːr ˈ v aɪ . n s / ; October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958) was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin 's early films and in
918-488: Was concerned that she might be too serious for comedic roles. Purviance still won the role. Edna Purviance was so closely associated with Chaplin on screen that trade reviewers took exception when she was away. Columnist Julian Johnson, reporting on Chaplin's solo performance in One A.M. , wrote: "Congratulations, Mr. Chaplin, on speaking your piece so nicely, but—come on back, Edna!" The noticeably close relationship extended to
952-432: Was deeply in love with Normand, who had originally approached him for help in dealing with an alleged cocaine dependency, and that Taylor met with federal prosecutors shortly before his death with an offer to assist them in filing charges against her drug dealers, theorizing that this meeting caused the dealers to hire a contract killer . According to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons for Taylor's murder but did not know
986-896: Was directed by Leo McCarey in Should Men Walk Home? The films were released with extensive publicity support from the Hollywood community, including her friend Mary Pickford . In 1926, she married actor Lew Cody , with whom she had appeared in Mickey in 1918. They lived separately in nearby houses in Beverly Hills . Normand's health was in decline due to tuberculosis . After an extended stay in Pottenger Sanitorium , she died from pulmonary tuberculosis on February 23, 1930, in Monrovia, California , at
1020-463: Was looking for a leading lady for A Night Out . "A Chaplin talent scout recognized potential in a pretty stenographer named Edna Purviance ... spotted sipping coffee at Tate's Café on Hill Street in Noe Valley." "...Tate's Cafe on Hill Street. There she met Carl Strauss, in town scouting for a leading lady for the young Charlie Chaplin." Chaplin arranged a meeting with her, but he
1054-516: Was of Irish heritage; while her father, Clodman "Claude" George Normand, was French Canadian , with his ancestral lineage dating back to Normandy in France and their surname originally being LeNormand or Le Normand . For a short time at the start of her career, Normand worked for Vitagraph Studios in New York City for $ 25 per week, but Vitagraph founder Albert E. Smith admitted she
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1088-596: Was one of several actresses about whom he made a mistake in estimating their "potential for future stardom." Normand's intensely beguiling lead performance in the 1911 dramatic short film Her Awakening , directed by D. W. Griffith , drew her attention and led to her meeting director Mack Sennett while at Griffith's Biograph Company . The two subsequently embarked on a chaotic relationship. Sennett later brought Normand to California when he founded Keystone Studios in 1912. Normand appeared with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in many short films. She played
1122-469: Was repeatedly linked with gun violence , including the 1922 murder of her friend, director William Desmond Taylor , and the non-fatal 1924 shooting of Courtland S. Dines by Normand's chauffeur , Joe Kelly. After police interrogation, she was ruled out as a suspect in Taylor's murder. Normand was a very heavy smoker who may have suffered lung cancer, and/or a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923, which led to
1156-672: Was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive. The Los Angeles Police Department subjected Normand to a grueling interrogation but ruled her out as a suspect. Most subsequent writers have done the same. However, Normand's career had already slowed, and her reputation was tarnished. According to George Hopkins , who sat next to her at Taylor's funeral, Normand wept inconsolably. In 1924, Normand's chauffeur Joe Kelly shot and wounded millionaire oil broker and amateur golfer Courtland S. Dines with her pistol . In response, several theaters pulled Normand's films, which were also banned in Ohio by
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