![Margie Reiger](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Margie_Reiger.jpg)
Margie Reiger was a
silent movie actress.
Reiger was the leading lady in
Charlie Chaplin's 1915 film ''
By the Sea''. This one-reel short film was filmed in one day in the vicinity of the pier in
Venice, California
Venice is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California.
Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by ...
.
The
BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of fi ...
turned down ''
A Woman'' when it was submitted in March 1915, although they later relented and the film was shown in the UK in July 1916. This was either for Chaplin's transvestitism, appearing disguised as a woman, or for
Charles Inslee's pursuit of Reiger in a park, the "premeditated seduction of a girl".
She acted opposite
Bernard "Ben" Turpin in ''The Wrong Coat'', also in 1915.
BFI
BFI
Filmography
*''Fun at a Ballgame''
*''Countless Count''
*'' By the Sea'' (1915)
*'' A Woman'' (1915)
*''The Wrong Coat''
References
External links
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American silent film actresses
20th-century American actresses
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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