Back Stage (1917)

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.

Back Stage is a 1917 movie. Genres: Comedy. Directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom. Main cast: Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Ethel Marie Burton, Polly Bailey, Ethelyn Gibson. Runtime: 13 minutes. Its average rating is 6.0 out of 10, from 1 votes.