Table of Contents Foreword by Anthony Slide 1 Preface and Acknowledgments 3 Prologue: Searching for an Artist's Lost Shadow 5 1. Chaplin's Biography Prior to A Woman of Paris: (A Darkly Farcical Perspective) (1889-1923) 13 2. "Chaplinitis": The Initial Fame Factor and Early Chaplin Films with Tangential Ties to A Woman of Paris 26 3. The Messiah-like World War I Bond Tour: "Chaplinitis" in Overdrive 50 4. Further Glass Ceiling Breaking: The Precedent Shattering Dark Comedy Shoulder Arms (1918) 66 5. Edna Purviance: A Less Than "Sunnyside" (1919) March to The Kid (1921) and A Woman of Paris (1923) 77 6. More Revisionism: A Short Subject and The Kid (1921) Continue to Anticipate A Woman of Paris (1923) 91 7. The Kid (1921) More Than Fulfills the "Letter to a Genius" Opening to Chapter 6 111 8.

 Charlie Chaplin Goes to Europe (1921) 122 9. Continuing the Path to A Woman of Paris (1923): A Unique Literary Year and Two Seminal Shorter Works 138 10. Prologue to A Woman of Paris (1923): The Pilgrim (1923), and the Women Impacting Paris 159 11. Making A Woman of Paris (1923) and Its Response 177 12. Correcting More Errors About Both the 1923 Release and the 1970s Rebirth of A Woman of Paris 193 Epilogue: A Woman of Paris (1923) and the United States of Amnesia 213 Filmography 219 Chapter Notes 221 Bibliography 237 Index 249.