- A Jitney Elopement
Infobox Film | name = A Jitney Elopement
caption = A scene filmed inGolden Gate Park
director =Charlie Chaplin
producer =Jess Robbins
writer =Charlie Chaplin
starring =Charles Chaplin
Lloyd Bacon
Ernest Van Pelt
Edna Purviance
Leo White
music =Robert Israel (Kino video release)
cinematography =Harry Ensign
editing =Charlie Chaplin
distributor =Essanay Studios
General Film Company
released = April 1, 1915
runtime = 33 minutes
language = Silent film
English (original intertitles)
country = USA
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0005571"A Jitney Elopement" was
Charlie Chaplin 's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Charlie Chaplin andEdna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Charlie does take her away in a jitney, a type ofshare taxi popular in the United States 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 in the park's westside.ynopsis
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner
Cast
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Charles Chaplin - Suitor, the Fake Count
*Edna Purviance - Edna
*Ernest Van Pelt - Edna's father
*Leo White - Count Chloride de Lime, Edna's Suitor
*Lloyd Bacon - Count Chloride de Lime, Edna's Suitor
* Paddy McGuire - Old Butler/Cop
*Bud Jamison - Cop with Baton
*Carl Stockdale - Cop
*Fred Goodwins - Undetermined RoleExternal links
*imdb title|id=0005571|title=A Jitney Elopement
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