Back Stage

1923 FamilyComedy 20 minutes Directed by Robert F. McGowan

About Back Stage

The Our Gang children meet the head of a vaudeville troupe whose partners have walked out. He puts them in the act. They wreck it. Bugs belonging to Jack and Joe get loose in the house and the audience starts scratching.

Cast & crew

More about Back Stage

Robert F. McGowan directed the 13th Our Gang short, the last under the first contract. The next release was Dogs of War. William Gillespie plays the head of the troupe. Dinah the mule is in the cast. Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Jack Davis, Allen Hoskins, and Ernie Morrison are the gang.

Themes

Notes

  • Wallace Howe plays the theater manager. McGowan himself appears as a man in front of the bus.
  • Ivadell Carter plays Pansy.

Scenes

  • The gang takes the stage after the real partners quit.
  • Jack and Joe's bugs set the audience itching.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (BackStageOurGangSilent1923)