A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate follows Marie St. Clair, a young woman from a small French town who plans to leave for Paris with her fiancé, the painter Jean Millet, against their parents' wishes. When Jean is kept from joining her at the station, Marie travels alone, believing she has been abandoned. In Paris she becomes the mistress of Pierre Revel, a wealthy and worldly businessman. A chance meeting brings Jean back into her life, and Marie must weigh the comfort and status Pierre offers against the love she left behind.

Charlie Chaplin directed, wrote and produced the film, which was released in 1923 and came between The Pilgrim and The Gold Rush. It was the thirteenth of the twenty-two features and shorts he directed. Edna Purviance, a frequent Chaplin collaborator, plays Marie, with Carl Miller as Jean and Adolphe Menjou as Pierre Revel; the credited cast numbers twenty-four.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.9 from around 6,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.7 from roughly 200 votes, indicating a moderately regarded work with a much smaller audience sample on the latter. A critics' score of 7.5 from eighteen reviews places it somewhat higher with reviewers than with general viewers.