Upstage (film)
Appearance
Upstage | |
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Directed by | Monta Bell |
Written by | Walter DeLeon and Lorna Moon |
Starring | Norma Shearer Oscar Shaw |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release dates | 7 November, 1926 |
Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | Template:FilmUS |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Upstage, also known as The Mask of Comedy, is a 1926 film directed by Monta Bell, starring Norma Shearer and New York musical comedy star Oscar Shaw.
Plot
Dolly (Norma Shearer) is a stagestruck girl who gets her career petered out until she displays show-must-go-on courage by standing-in as target in a knife-throwing act.
Cast
- Norma Shearer - Dolly Haven
- Oscar Shaw - Johnny Storm
- Tenen Holtz - Sam Davis
- Gwen Lee - Dixie Mason
- Dorothy Phillips - Miss Weaver
- J. Frank Glendon - Mr. Weston
- Ward Crane - Wallace King
- Charles Meakin - Stage Manager