Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.
Sammy Brooks
- Troup Manager
- (uncredited)
Helen Gilmore
- Manager's Wife
- (uncredited)
Estelle Harrison
- Actress
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- Conductor
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Quotes
The Stage Hand: There's a sucker born every minute and I musta been twins.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Legends of World Cinema: Harold Lloyd
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Not terrible...
By the early 1920s, Harold Lloyd had become one of the very best and successful screen comics. However, his path to stardom was NOT so simple. In the 1910s, he played a variety of characters who really were really nothing like his sweet bespectacled guy. Even in some of his later films before going on to huge successes when he LOOKED much like the familiar guy he sure didn't act it and the formula still needed a lot of work...such is definitely the case with "Ring Up the Curtain". Sure, this incarnation of Lloyd LOOKS like the great character from such films as "Safety Last" and "The Freshman"....but act like him, not at all. Instead of being a sympathetic character with some depth and likability, this Lloyd is not much different from any other slapstick actor--ready to hit, kick or take pratfalls but nothing more. In fact, the film really has no plot--just Lloyd (and sometimes with Snub Pollard and Bebe Daniels) doing a lot of slapstick stuff with no context, no story...nothing. It's not a terrible film by 1919 standards but also has nothing to recommend it as well...unless you are die- hard fan of Lloyd and insist on seeing all his movies...the good, the bad and the indifferent.
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- planktonrules
- Feb 9, 2016
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- Runtime12 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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