Leading Ladies published a book on this film in 2008 (The Sea Gull: A Woman of the Sea by Linda Wada). It includes over 50 photos from Edna Purviance's personal pictures from the film, including items worn in the movie. The Sea Gull was the working title, but Sternberg's first screen title for the film was 'The Woman Who Once Loved'. The title was changed to 'A Woman of the Sea' before its one and only showing to a private audience. Chaplin never released the film, even after saying he planned to.
Linda Wada, Leading Ladies, 13.07.2012
Chaplin studio documentation states that Chaplin had the film’s original negative and all prints destroyed on 21 June 1933, yet Jeffrey Vance, "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema" (New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003) p. 370 notes that the studio projection-room logbook documents that Chaplin screened a 35mm print of the film as late as 16 February 1939.
Silent Era
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