A Jitney Elopement

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.

Contents

• Synopsis
• Cast
• References

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)