Sternberg speaks about A WOMAN OF THE SEA

From FUN IN A CHINESE LAUNDRY by Joseph Von Sternberg:
[Edna Purviance] was still charming, though she had not appeared in pictures
for a number of years and had become unbelievably timid and unable to act in
even the simplest scene without great difficulty. Aware of this, Mr. Chaplin
credited me with sufficient skill to overcome such handicaps, and in the
completed film she actually seemed at ease.
When the filming had ended I showed it exactly once at one theater...and that
was the end of that. [Chaplin and I] spent many idle hours with each other,
before, during, and after the making of [A WOMAN OF THE SEA], but not once was
this work of mine discussed, nor have I ever broached the subject of its fate
to him. He charged off its cost against his formidable income tax, and I
charged it off to experience.