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A Jitney Elopement
A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Purviance wanting Chaplin to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Chaplin does take her away in a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the large windmills still on the
, including "A Jitney Elopement" and "In the Park",
- Another silent comedy short was filmed in the park, "Wished on Mabel" (1915), starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; various early features of the park can be seen in this 12-minute film, including several views of Stone Bridge
- The film "Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) features the Golden Gate Park as the location of Sherwood Forest
- A scene in Orson Welles' "The Lady