Behind the Screen
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Behind the Screen is a 1916 short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, who also starred along with Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. In the film, which takes place in a movie studio, Chaplin plays a stagehand named David, while Campbell ("Goliath") plays his supervisor. Much of the film is slapstick comedy, but other issues are also brought up, such as a stagehand strike, as well as a plotline in which Purviance, unable to become an actress, dresses as a man and becomes a stagehand. The film is silent.
Trivia
The film is noted for having one of the first Hollywood gay jokes in it. After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a man, he kisses her while on the set. A heavy set stagehand sees this, and thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him.