Behind the Screen (1916)
Charlie Chaplin is a stage hand during filming, with all the usual escapades. When the manager orders the stagehands back to work after their extended lunchbreak, they go on strike, leaving only Charlie and teh foreman. But Edna Purviance is a girl who hopes to be an actress; she puts on a man's overalls, and pretending to be a boy, she asks for work. The foreman takes her on, suspecting nothing.
But Charlie realises she is a girl when her hair escapes from her cap, and a little flirting ensues. However the foreman, Eric Campbell sees this, and not realising she is a girl, assumes a gay relationship --- and this is 1916.
Campbell then makes a series of mocking effeminate motions to express his homophobic view of what he thinks has been going on.
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