Release Date

01 Jan, 1917

Runtime

00:13: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble starts when the new acts arrive. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, demand the star dressing room but Props turns them down, but relents when Babe, the strong man, and his beautiful wife, Ethel Burton because he is smitten. Once the show begins Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and his bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at the wrong moments. Things only get crazier from there.

Original Title

Back Stage

Photos

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Actors

Billy West

Oliver Hardy

Ethel Marie Burton

Polly Bailey

Ethelyn Gibson

Crew

Arvid E. Gillstrom

Louis Burston

Herman Obrock Jr.

Ben H. Cohen