Ring Up the Curtain
About Ring Up the Curtain
A traveling company reaches a small opera house just after the manager has fired most of the stagehands for drinking. Harold Lloyd, the one hand left, has to run the show. He lets a snake charmer's snake loose, then barges onstage when the leading man (Snub Pollard) tries to kiss the leading lady (Bebe Daniels). The performance collapses. She tells him she is broke, takes his money, and walks off on the villain's arm. An intertitle has Harold conclude he was born a sucker twice. He turns on the gas in a dressing room.
Cast & crew
More about Ring Up the Curtain
Alfred J. Goulding directed and Hal Roach produced the one-reeler for Pathé Exchange. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Lord Heath's Lloyd filmography dates the shooting to 9–14 September 1918 and gives it production number L-55. The American Film Institute lists the release length as 1,000 feet.
Themes
Look
Walter Lundin photographed the one-reeler, according to the Lloyd filmography on lordheath.com.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print survives. Wikipedia notes a DVD edition without naming the label.
Notes
- Bud Jamison plays an actor, and Noah Young is in the company.
- Sammy Brooks is put to charming the loose snake with a flute.
- Walter Lundin is credited with the photography on the Lloyd filmography.
- The short survives.
Scenes
- Harold fights the curtain rope while the actresses are already onstage.
- Bebe leaves on Snub Pollard's arm with Harold's money.
- Harold turns on the dressing-room gas.
Quotes
There's a sucker born every minute--and I must have been twins!
