Ring Up The Curtain Directed By Alfred J Goulding

Ring Up the Curtain Directed byAlfred J. GouldingProduced byHal RoachStarringHarold LloydDistributed byPathé ExchangeRelease date April 27, 1919 Running time12 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent English intertitles Ring Up the Curtain is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. The film survives and is available on DVD.[1] PlotA troupe of performers arrives for a performance at a local opera house. Shortly before their arrival, the opera house's short-tempered manager fires the majority of the stage hands for drunkenness, leaving only Harold. Harold agrees to try to run the activities behind the stage by himself. Trouble starts when Harold accidentally sets a snake charmer's animal free. Harold is smitten by the attractive Leading Lady who openly flirts with him. A jealous Harold enters the stage and ruins a dramatic scene where the villainous Leading Man tries to kiss the Leading Lady. This starts a wild brawl onstage. The show ends abruptly and the Leading Lady sadly informs Harold that she is now destitute. Harold gives her some money. Seconds later she leaves arm-in-arm with the actor who had played the villain. Harold realizes he has been conned: "There's a sucker born every minute--and I must have been twins!" The film ends with Harold turning on the gas in a dressing room, seemingly to commit suicide. CastHarold Lloyd as The Stage HandBebe Daniels as The Leading LadySnub Pollard as The Leading ManBud Jamison as An ActorNoah Young as An ActorEdith DepewFlorence DepewBilly FayWilliam GillespieOscar LarsonJames ParrottWilliam PettersonEmmy Wallace (as Emmylou Wallace)Dorothea WolbertSammy Brooks as Troup Manager (uncredited)Helen Gilmore as Manager's Wife (uncredited)Estelle Harrison as Actress (uncredited)Wallace Howe as Conductor (uncredited)Dee Lampton as Actor (uncredited)Marie Mosquini as Actress (uncredited)Fred C. Newmeyer as Stagehand (uncredited)Charles Stevenson as Stagehand (uncredited) See alsoHarold Lloyd filmography References Progressive Silent Film List: Ring Up the Curtain at silentera.com

Director

Alfred J. Goulding