Back Stage (1917 film)

Back Stage
Directed byArvid E. Gillstrom
Produced byLouis Burstein
StarringOliver Hardy
CinematographyHerman Obrock Jr.
Edited byBen H. Cohen
Production
company
King Bee Studios
Release date
  • May 15, 1917 (1917-05-15)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Back Stage is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Cast

  • Billy West as Props
  • Ethel Marie Burton as Ethel (as Ethel Burton)
  • Polly Bailey (as Polly Van)
  • Joe Cohen
  • Ethelyn Gibson (as Ethelynne Gibson)
  • Oliver Hardy (as Babe Hardy)
  • Florence McLaughlin (as Florence McLoughlin)
  • Bud Ross (as Budd Ross)
  • Leo White

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Back Stage was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of closeups of hula dancers and the actions of a bearded man backstage, and the scene of three women falling in the back of the stage and baring their legs.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (20). New York: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. November 10, 1917.


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