stenberg's next project was an assignment by charlie chaplin (united artists) to write and direct a woman of the sea starring edna purviance. this episode also ended badly: the film was never released and chaplin felt compelled to destroy all film negatives. as sternberg sardonically quipped in his 1965 memoir "fun in a chinese laundry", "it was [edna purviance]'s last film and nearly my own."