A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) on Netflix
Left waiting at the railway station by her fiancé Jean Millet, Marie St. Clair travels to Paris alone. A year later she is the mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel.
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Plot summary
Marie St. Clair and Jean Millet, an aspiring artist, intend to leave their French village and marry in Paris. The night before their departure, Marie's stepfather locks her out, and Jean's father refuses to take her in. Jean escorts her to the railway station and goes home to pack. His father has died, and when Marie telephones from the station he tells her the trip must be postponed without saying why. She takes the train alone. A year later in Paris, Marie lives in luxury as the mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel. A friend invites her to a party in the Latin Quarter but cannot remember which apartment it is in; Marie enters the wrong building and finds Jean, who lives there with his mother.
Cast
- Malvina Poloas Paulette
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
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- Charlie Chaplin produced A Woman of Paris partly to help Edna Purviance gain recognition as an actress without him at her side, and also to stay behind the camera and make his first real drama. Despite his effort, Purviance never matched the success she had in his Tramp films.
- A Woman of Paris was Charlie Chaplin's first dedicated attempt at straight dramatic subject matter, and his only silent film in which he does not appear as a main actor. His next film was the comedy The Gold Rush (1925).
- A Woman of Paris was censored by state and local boards: the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors found it acceptable only with revisions, and although Massachusetts passed the film, the local board of Worcester banned it as "morally objectionable."
- Historian Lewis Jacobs says A Woman of Paris inspired director Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924), which in turn influenced dozens of other films.
- For a theatrical reissue of A Woman of Paris, Chaplin and music associate Eric James created a new score, and Chaplin trimmed about 8 minutes of footage to tighten the action.
