Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen is a 1916 short silent film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance.

The 1983 documentary series Unknown Chaplin revealed previously unseen footage from this movie, including an alternate take where Purviances character is shown playing a harp an outtake in which Edna, playing the guitar, starts laughing the documentary supports the belief that Purviance and Chaplin were romantically involved at the time and several takes of a sequence in which Chaplins character narrowly misses having his feet chopped off by an axe accomplished by filming the scene backwards this sequence was never used in the final film.The 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet draws attention to the scene where Chaplins character after learning that Purviances character is really a woman kisses her while on the set at this point, a male stagehand enters and, thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him. ........

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