InformationProgressive Silent Film ListLost FilmsPeopleTheaters
TaylorologyArticlesHome VideoBooksStoreSearch
The Hitchcock 9
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Back Stage (1919)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
 

About This Listing  /  Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

 

    Roscoe Arbuckle (center), Molly Malone and Buster
    Keaton (third from right).
    Photograph: Silent Era
image collection.
Back Stage
Also known as {Backstage}
(1919) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (Roscoe Arbuckle) [stagehand], Buster Keaton [stagehand], Al St. John [stagehand], Molly Malone [the strongman’s assistant], John Coogan [a dancer]

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (Paramount Pictures Corporation). / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Jean Havez. / © 20 August 1919 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP14114]. Released 7 September 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Color-tinted. / The production was shot at the Comique studio in Edendale [Los Angeles], California. Keaton’s first film with Arbuckle after his war service. Reputed to be the first comedy with color tints.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [Motion Picture World, 20 December 1919, page 1013] Burlesque of stage life. Roscoe and Buster do a dance together.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 6 April 2010.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Dardis-Keaton pp. 56, 287; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 146e, 146f, 265; Kerr-Silent p. 124; Miller-Comedies p. 16.

Home video: DVD.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Back Stage (1919)   ||   Top of Page

Wings on Blu-ray Disc

Keaton Short FIlms Blu-ray Disc

Keaton Short FIlms Blu-ray Disc

Ultimate Keaton Boxset on Blu-ray

The General on Blu-ray Disc