A Woman of Paris
| A Woman of Paris | |
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| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Written by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Produced by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Starring | Edna Purviance Clarence Geldart Carl Miller Lydia Knott Charles K. French Adolphe Menjou |
| Cinematography | Roland Totheroh Jack Wilson |
| Edited by | Monta Bell 1976 cut Charlie Chaplin |
| Music by | Original score Louis F. Gottschalk Fritz Stahlberg 1976 cut Charlie Chaplin Eric James |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
| Box office | $634,000 (US/Canada) |
A Woman of Paris (also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate) is a 1923 silent drama film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It stars Edna Purviance as the title character, along with Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French and Adolphe Menjou. A United Artists production, the film was an atypical dramatic work for Chaplin.
A Woman of Paris was Chaplin's first dedicated attempt at "straight dramatic subject matter" and his only film in which he does not appear as an actor; his next film was the highly acclaimed comedy The Gold Rush (1925). Years later in 1952, he made Limelight which has been both described as "comedy-drama" and a "drama".