Trivia

After her retirement in 1926, Charles Chaplin kept her on his payroll for decades, showing her much more concern and consideration than he did to any of his former wives.

Her relationship with Charles Chaplin became, at one point, romantic as well as professional (1915-1917). However, it was abruptly over after he was forced into a shotgun wedding with teenager Mildred Harris. Nevertheless, Purviance continued to be his leading lady. Her sweet, girlish counterbalance to his rambunctious antics had become a marketable commodity. It was speculated that if they had married, Chaplin could have been spared much of the domestic troubles and scandals that would plague him later in his life.

Was Charles Chaplin's female lead for more films than any other actress in Chaplin's career.

Interred at Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, California, USA, in the West Mausoleum.

She played Kitty Bradbury's daughter in three films directed by Charles Chaplin: The Immigrant (1917), The Kid (1921) and The Pilgrim (1923).

According to a 1920 census, she was neighbors with William Desmond Taylor around the time of his murder. Douglas MacLean and his wife were living nearby as well.

Purviance was injured when she fell from a sleigh being pulled by runaway horses in Lyons, France on December 31, 1927. Armand Bernard, who had just made the film The Prince and the Dancer (1927) with her was injured trying to stop the horses.