Alice Chapple Judd, the former wife to Charlie Chaplin's half-brother Wheeler Dryden, died December 25, 2005, in Glendale, California. She was 94 years old.
Alice was the mother to Spencer Dryden (drummer for Jefferson Airplane), who died January 2005.
Alice was born September 18, 1911, in Bayonne, New Jersey and was a longtime resident of Glendale, California. In the 1930's, she was a prima ballerina in New York.
She is survived by two step-daughters, seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchilden and longtime friend and advisor, David Banta.
Special thanks to Paul Carpenter for this information. Also, I added Paul's interesting and informative comments on this below.
"There is not a lot of information on Wheeler Dryden's relatively brief marriage to Alice Chapple - sources indicate they were married from about 1938 until 1944, the early years of Wheeler's employment at the Chaplin Studios. Chaplin biographer David Robinson wrote in his 1985 book that the marriage may have been undone by Wheeler's single-minded devotion to his famous half-brother.
Robinson also alludes that Wheeler was an emotionally fragile man prone to odd behavior. His sad decline into isolation and paranoia in the years after both Charlie and Sydney left America (as described to Robinson by the Chaplins' cousin Betty Tetrick) seems to bear this out.
It is unfortunate that we have no record of interviews with Ms. Chapple, regarding either her recollections of the Chaplins, or her own interesting life. If anyone knows of any more information, please forward it on." - Paul Carpenter
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
San Francisco Symphony performs 'City Lights'
November 2006 - Thanksgiving Weekend The San Francisco Symphony will perform and screen 'CITY LIGHTS'.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
New Hearing Date for Grand View Cemetery
March 12 update- Update on Grand View Cemetery. I have been informed that the New Hearing Date has been moved to March 14, 2006 at 2PM. More about Grand Cemetery and Edna Purviance. Link to Unrest at Grand View
Charlie Chaplin on TCM
April 1st, 2006 - 5AM Eastern, Turner Classic Movies will show 'Chaplin at Keystone Studios'.
April 22, 2006 - 3:30 AM Eastern, 'Limelight'
See this LINK for times or check TCM March and April schedule. The Keystone films are the last films listed for the month of March. (note: TCM day runs 24 hours from 6AM to 6AM eastern time.)
April 22, 2006 - 3:30 AM Eastern, 'Limelight'
See this LINK for times or check TCM March and April schedule. The Keystone films are the last films listed for the month of March. (note: TCM day runs 24 hours from 6AM to 6AM eastern time.)
Éducation De Prince
Éducation De Prince or Education of the Prince, was Edna Purviance's last film. It was release in Europe in 1927, but apparently never shown in the USA. I have heard there was a VHS version released about 1991. Also, this film has been shown at film festivals in France many years ago.
I have been looking for the past few years for a source for this film and would be interested in anyone who knows where this film might be found. France seems the most likely place, but my leads have not panned out as of yet.
You can contact me at ednapuriance.org through my contact page. Thank you for your help...
I have been looking for the past few years for a source for this film and would be interested in anyone who knows where this film might be found. France seems the most likely place, but my leads have not panned out as of yet.
You can contact me at ednapuriance.org through my contact page. Thank you for your help...
Busy with Edna!
Lately I have been taking even more time I have afterwork and devoting to the Edna Project. Many things are in the works and will be announce on Edna's site. Right now, the work continues. Stay tune!
COMMENTS ABOUT EDNA'S SITE
February 28th, 2006 - With this being Ednapurviance.org fifth year on the web, I put together this page of some of the comments about Edna's site over the years... Special thanks to everyone who have visited the site over the years... LINK
COMMENTS ABOUT EDNA'S SITE
February 28th, 2006 - With this being Ednapurviance.org fifth year on the web, I put together this page of some of the comments about Edna's site over the years... Special thanks to everyone who have visited the site over the years... LINK
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance Events and News
UPDATED July 11, 2006
•AVAILABLE NOW - Essential Charlie Chaplin Film Music Collection
Available now in the UK and USA
FILM DOCUMENTARY EVENT
• LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2006 - CINECON FILM FESTIVAL - Hollywood, California - Edna Purviance's grand niece, Lita Hill Video Presentation on Edna Purviance, the unknown years. Lita knew Edna Purviance for over 20 years and this is her story on knowing Edna. She also lived with her for many years during the 1950's. Includes never for seen pictures from Edna's own personal collection. More details to come at ednapurviance.org.
FILM & MUSIC EVENT
• November 2006 - Thanksgiving Weekend, The San Francisco Symphony performs 'City Lights', San Francisco, California
FILM & MUSIC EVENT - Worldwide
Check this LINK for more events worldwide.
SPECIAL EVENT - PLAY
• September 8th and 9th, 2006 NEW DATE - NEW PLAY
Silent - A new play by Lee H. Smith at the Sheffield Library Theatre, Sheffield, England. About the silent film era.
BOOK RELEASE
• August 1, 2006 - Planned Release of Silent Traces : Discovering Early Hollywood through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
NOW AVAILABLE
Chaplin Mutual Comedies with Carl Davis's new music recordings in the US from Image Entertainment. Available for pre-order in the USA.
• Hollywood Series DVD Complete Collection by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Released in the UK. Contact Amazon UK for more details on this collection.
EDNA PROJECT IN THE WORKS
• 2006 - More work being done on the book but slowed a bit, as I need to make more time re-working the video for Cinecon Labor Day Weekend 2006.
LATEST ON EDNA
• A review of Sunrise Silents
• More information on the NEW Chaplin Music CD
WEBSITE ITEMS OF INTEREST
• March 17th, 2006 - Google Video has this fun tribute film to Charlie Chaplin created by Trevor Lacas called 'The Little Tramp Movie'. It was an earlier work now available on Google Video.
•AVAILABLE NOW - Essential Charlie Chaplin Film Music Collection
Available now in the UK and USA
FILM DOCUMENTARY EVENT
• LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2006 - CINECON FILM FESTIVAL - Hollywood, California - Edna Purviance's grand niece, Lita Hill Video Presentation on Edna Purviance, the unknown years. Lita knew Edna Purviance for over 20 years and this is her story on knowing Edna. She also lived with her for many years during the 1950's. Includes never for seen pictures from Edna's own personal collection. More details to come at ednapurviance.org.
FILM & MUSIC EVENT
• November 2006 - Thanksgiving Weekend, The San Francisco Symphony performs 'City Lights', San Francisco, California
FILM & MUSIC EVENT - Worldwide
Check this LINK for more events worldwide.
SPECIAL EVENT - PLAY
• September 8th and 9th, 2006 NEW DATE - NEW PLAY
Silent - A new play by Lee H. Smith at the Sheffield Library Theatre, Sheffield, England. About the silent film era.
BOOK RELEASE
• August 1, 2006 - Planned Release of Silent Traces : Discovering Early Hollywood through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
NOW AVAILABLE
Chaplin Mutual Comedies with Carl Davis's new music recordings in the US from Image Entertainment. Available for pre-order in the USA.
• Hollywood Series DVD Complete Collection by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Released in the UK. Contact Amazon UK for more details on this collection.
EDNA PROJECT IN THE WORKS
• 2006 - More work being done on the book but slowed a bit, as I need to make more time re-working the video for Cinecon Labor Day Weekend 2006.
LATEST ON EDNA
• A review of Sunrise Silents
• More information on the NEW Chaplin Music CD
WEBSITE ITEMS OF INTEREST
• March 17th, 2006 - Google Video has this fun tribute film to Charlie Chaplin created by Trevor Lacas called 'The Little Tramp Movie'. It was an earlier work now available on Google Video.
Friday, February 17, 2006
A Tribute To Charlie Chaplin - Music CD
'A Tribute to Charlie Chaplin' with conductor Stanley Black and The London Festival Orchestra is now available as a 2-CD collection by Stanley Black. The collection includes 'Tribute' but also Stanley Black's 'Dimensions in Sound' with The London Festival Orchestra & Chorus. 'Tribute...' has been favorite for some Chaplin music fans, but rare to find and expensive import, so this is a great option to get this Chaplin collection with Black's other work. MORE INFORMATION
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Who looks like Edna to you?
What actress or other well known person looks the most like Edna Purviance to you?
Edna Purviance Amazon Page
A couple of years ago I created a few US guides for Charlie Chaplin DVDs & Videos, Music and Books. I also created the section with links to Amazon. Sells of items from those pages add nothing to your cost, but helps the Edna project a bit with research material. If you ever done anything like this, you know the kind of cost involved. I created the guides to help you find Chaplin related material, after being inspired by Chaplin UK Video Guide.
Today, I was just checking Edna's stats and found this link from Amazon about Edna Purviance website. I don't exactly know when this page on Amazon was created, but interesting to see. I actually didn't know Amazon did this sort of thing, for I usually digging around finding other material on Amazon.
It says something about the Speed slow. Edna has always had many graphics, so people on phone modems would find it slow, but not all pages are slow to load, just the ones with more graphics, just happen to be lots of graphics. It is fast with DSL and cable modems.
It will be nice when phone modems are in the past and everyone can afford high speed internet. Getting better every year. As for this Amazon page, interesting to see, but looking forward to Edna's first book on Amazon one of these days. (Which means I better get back to it...)
Notes: Music section - New Essental Chaplin Collection coming soon. Added a re-lease conbination of Stanley Black's 'A Tribute to Charlie Chaplin'. Thanks to Mark at Hollywood Time Machine for the tip (Mark is updating his website at this time). I will update the DVD guide with the new Mutual collection when ready. For the latest on books from Chaplin, check out the LATEST section of the Chaplin Library. It has the latest books in Dominique Dugros 400 plus Chaplin book collection from early books to recent. Speaking of books, you can also pre-order Silent Traces from Amazon at this time. Release August 2006.
Today, I was just checking Edna's stats and found this link from Amazon about Edna Purviance website. I don't exactly know when this page on Amazon was created, but interesting to see. I actually didn't know Amazon did this sort of thing, for I usually digging around finding other material on Amazon.
It says something about the Speed slow. Edna has always had many graphics, so people on phone modems would find it slow, but not all pages are slow to load, just the ones with more graphics, just happen to be lots of graphics. It is fast with DSL and cable modems.
It will be nice when phone modems are in the past and everyone can afford high speed internet. Getting better every year. As for this Amazon page, interesting to see, but looking forward to Edna's first book on Amazon one of these days. (Which means I better get back to it...)
Notes: Music section - New Essental Chaplin Collection coming soon. Added a re-lease conbination of Stanley Black's 'A Tribute to Charlie Chaplin'. Thanks to Mark at Hollywood Time Machine for the tip (Mark is updating his website at this time). I will update the DVD guide with the new Mutual collection when ready. For the latest on books from Chaplin, check out the LATEST section of the Chaplin Library. It has the latest books in Dominique Dugros 400 plus Chaplin book collection from early books to recent. Speaking of books, you can also pre-order Silent Traces from Amazon at this time. Release August 2006.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Charlie Chaplin and MTV
Just a bit about how Chaplin's image is being used in the modern age from Calcutta, India:
"The Telegraph presented The M2 Challenge, An Inter-corporate Quiz on Movies and Media. The event was meant to raise funds for Concern India Foundation, an NGO working for the betterment of underprivileged children.... The visual round was the most entertaining, mixing the first ever music video on MTV with Charlie Chaplin’s hilarious act in The Great Dictator."
"The Telegraph presented The M2 Challenge, An Inter-corporate Quiz on Movies and Media. The event was meant to raise funds for Concern India Foundation, an NGO working for the betterment of underprivileged children.... The visual round was the most entertaining, mixing the first ever music video on MTV with Charlie Chaplin’s hilarious act in The Great Dictator."
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Silent Traces - available for pre-order
Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood through the Films of Charlie Chaplin, by John Bengtson, is now available for pre-order at Amazon USA, UK, France, Germany and Canada. Check the Amazon shop in your area for more details. Also see CHAPLIN LIBRARY for updates. (planned for release August 2006)
Monday, February 13, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006
February 18th, 2006
Brief Glimpse #2 is now retired... A Brief Glimpse #3 is up, for a short while. There is a list of the others that were up but retired. (ABOUT BRIEF GLIMPSE)
February 12, 2006
- I have made a few updates at the Chaplin Library.
Brief Glimpse #2 is now retired... A Brief Glimpse #3 is up, for a short while. There is a list of the others that were up but retired. (ABOUT BRIEF GLIMPSE)
February 12, 2006
- I have made a few updates at the Chaplin Library.
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