Upstairs

Aug 3, 1919

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Overview

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....

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Upstairs Trailers

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Cast

Elsie MacFarland

Mabel Normand

Lemuel Stallings

Cullen Landis

Harrison Perry

Hallam Cooley

Detective Murphy

Edwin Stevens

Chef Henri

Robert Bolder

Eloise Barrison

Beatrice Burnham

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