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Upstairs (1919)

Genre : Comedy

Runtime : 50M

Director : Victor Schertzinger

Synopsis

While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....

Actors

Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
Elsie MacFarland
Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis
Lemuel Stallings
Hallam Cooley
Hallam Cooley
Harrison Perry
Edwin Stevens
Edwin Stevens
Detective Murphy
Robert Bolder
Robert Bolder
Chef Henri
Beatrice Burnham
Beatrice Burnham
Eloise Barrison

Crews

Victor Schertzinger
Victor Schertzinger
Director
Robert F. Hill
Robert F. Hill
Writer
Perley Poore Sheehan
Perley Poore Sheehan
Story
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Hugo Ballin
Hugo Ballin
Art Direction
George Webber
George Webber
Director of Photography

Posters and backgrounds

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