The Property Man
About The Property Man
Charlie runs the props. He fights the actors over luggage and over who gets the star dressing room. Then he has to get each act on in front of the right backdrop.
Cast & crew
More about The Property Man
Chaplin wrote and directed. Mack Sennett produced. Mutual distributed it. Frank D. Williams photographed. The archive copy is dated August 1, 1914. Phyllis Allen, Alice Davenport, Charles Bennett, and Jess Dandy are billed. Mack Sennett also appears.
Themes
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the wings and the dressing-room door.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The backstage fight is about a dressing room, then about the scenery.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as CC_1914_08_01_CharolotGargonDeTheater.
- Fritz Schade and Chester Conklin are also billed.
- The French archive title calls him the theater boy.
Scenes
- The company fights over the star's room.
- The act goes on in front of the wrong cloth.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1914_08_01_CharolotGargonDeTheater)
