Charlotte Mineau

French-born, Canadian-reared Charlotte Mineau became a regal presence at Essanay and Mutual in the mid-1910s, most notably in the comedies of Charles Chaplin, where she twice played Edna Purviance's mother: The Vagabond and The Count (both 1916). Ten years later, and in a complete change of pace, she was Gustav von Seyffertitz's slovenly wife in Mary Pickford's Sparrows. According to some reports, Mineau turned up, briefly and unbilled, in a party scene in the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business (1931).