Trivia

In 1933 the negative was destroyed so that all losses incurred by the production could be written off.

It is the only major film connected with Charles Chaplin that has been lost.

The only film that Charles Chaplin produced in which he did not also star or direct. Chaplin disliked the finished film so much he termed it 'not human' and decided not to release it. The negative has disappeared.

The idea of destroying the negative belonged to the film's producer Charles Chaplin.

Never officially released. The story for this film is variously attributed to Charles Chaplin and Josef von Sternberg. According to newspaper articles, Sternberg directed the film, intended as the screen comeback of Edna Purviance. Filmed as The Sea Gull, it was found lacking by Chaplin, who directed some additional scenes and inserted them into the version finally premiered as A Woman of the Sea at a Beverly Hills theatre. It was screened only once, then withdrawn into Chaplin's vaults.