Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Comique comedy Back Stage (1919) starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, with Buster Keaton and Al St. John. By now, the backstage comedy was a well established silent comedy subgenre, almost obligatory. Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd had all done comedies with similar settings. This one (like […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:11AM on September 7, 2014