Edna Purviance
A Burlesque on Carmen is Charlie Chaplin's thirteenth film for Essanay Studios, originally released as "Carmen" on December 18, 1915. Chaplin played the leading man and Edna Purviance played Carmen. The film is a parody of Cecil B. DeMille's "Carmen" 1915, which was itself an interpretation of the popular novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée.