Almost an Actress (1913)

Directed by

Allen Curtis

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy about a film shoot that goes completely wrong. The actors and crew deal with mishaps on a movie set.

shortsilentchaoticfrustratingcomediclightheartedquickfarce

What happens

Almost an Actress is a 1913 American silent short comedy film directed by Allen Curtis and starring Louise Fazenda, Max Asher, Lon Chaney and Silvion de Jardin. A surviving still from the film shows Lon Chaney as the exasperated cameraman, grimacing in frustration as chaos envelops the film set. The film is now considered lost. It is unknown when the film was lost, but if it was in Universal's vaults it would have been deliberately destroyed along with the remaining copies of Universal's silent era films in 1948. Comedian Silvion de Jardins, who later changed his name to Bobby Vernon, also worked for the Kolb and Dill burlesque and stage company, which had also once starred Lon Chaney in its productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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