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Movie Premier in 1915.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Sound Mix: Silent
Release Dates: USA:30 January 1915
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Harold Lloyd (actor)
Articles: "The Daily Telegraph" (UK), 20 May 2001, by: Melissa Denes, "The double life of Harold Lloyd", "Vex" (USA), 1999, Iss. 4, pg. 28, by: Joe Wawrzyniak & John Hudson, "Lloyd Lends a Hand", "Films of the Golden Age" (USA), Winter 1997, Iss. 11, pg. 74-79, by: Annette M. D'Agostino, "Silent Film Comedy, as Redefined by Harold Lloyd", "TV Times" (UK), 10 February 1990, pg. 6, by: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill, "High Jinks of a Fall Guy..."
His home, "GreenAcres" has 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places., One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)., A 1919 accident with a prop bomb which turned out to be a live bomb, cost him the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. In subsequent films, he wore a glove and prosthetic device to hide it. Remarkably, he was able to do many of his gags (he employed a stunt man for serious stunts) convincingly afterward., Lloyd's "Glasses character" was the inspiration for Superman's identity as Clark Kent. Like that character, Lloyd found that he could hide his identity simply by taking off the glasses., Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Begonia Corridor., According to the book, "The History Of Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays", Lloyd was originally slated to play the lead role of Elwood P. Dowd in 'Mary Chase (I)' (qv)'s Broadway stage play "Harvey". Lloyd turned the part down, and it then went to 'Frank Fay' (qv)., Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist 'Al Hirschfeld' (qv), this set of stamps also honored 'Rudolph Valentino' (qv), 'Clara Bow (I)' (qv), 'Charles Chaplin' (qv), 'Lon Chaney' (qv), 'John Gilbert (I)' (qv), 'Zasu Pitts' (qv), 'Theda Bara' (qv), 'Buster Keaton' (qv), and 'Keystone Kops' (qv)., Was immortalized in _"Futurama" (1999)_ (qv) episode S03E08: That's Lobstertainment. In this episode we find out that Dr. Zoidberg has an uncle who was a silent actor, Harold Zoid., Aside from two talking films, _The Milky Way (1936)_ (qv) & _The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)_ (qv) (AKA "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock"), all films from 1922 through _Grandma's Boy (1922)_ (qv), were owned by Lloyd. Many of the pre-1920 shorts were lost in a nitrate explosion in his film vault in 1943 and are now considered lost. A limited number of films rights were sold to Time-Life in 1998, and released on VHS format. The estate rejected offers to release them to DVD up until 2005, when they accepted an offer from New Line (some have also been restored and shown periodically on TCM). His films are set to be released on DVD somewhere in the next two years (2006-2007) (The two talking films are in the public domain, and all films before 1922 are owned by KINO having passed from Pathe and Roach), He is the great-great uncle of 'Casper Van Dien' (qv) and 'Grace Van Dien' (qv)., He adopted daughter 'Marjorie Elisabeth Lloyd' (qv) in 1929, when she was five years old., Father of 'Harold Lloyd Jr.' (qv) and 'Gloria Lloyd Roberts' (qv)., Brother of 'Gaylord Lloyd' (qv)., Son of 'J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd' (qv) and 'Elisabeth Fraser Lloyd' (qv)., Grandfather of 'Suzanne Lloyd Hayes' (qv)., After Lloyd's career as an actor deserted him in 1938, he immersed - some would say drowned - himself into one hobby after another. While he bred Great Danes and collected cars earlier in life, he would later indulge himself in marathon movie nights several times each week, and become rabidly interested in photography (which allowed himself intimate contact with innumerable models) and later, in hi-fidelity sound systems. He placed standing orders for the entire catalogs of several record companies, amassing an enormous record collection., His actual autographs prior to 1936 are quite rare. His father, 'J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd' (qv), was given the job as the official fan mail correspondent within the Harold Lloyd Corporation. Foxy's signature is easy to recognize - it's right out of the 19th century and quite florid. HL's signature is much plainer and common. His father retired to Palm Springs in 1936. HL found it impossible to dodge autograph seekers when he began whirlwind movie/bowling nights around Los Angeles as his acting career wound down about the same time. Real pre-1936 autographs exist mainly on contracts and extremely personal correspondence to 'Bebe Daniels' (qv)., Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1960., Parts of _Westworld (1973)_ (qv) were shot at his estate, GreenAcres. He had expressed a desire to see his home preserved in some capacity related to his career, but his will strangely neglected any funding for the enormous estate. His heirs briefly opened it as a tourist attraction (and filming location) but this failed to generate adequate income and it was later sold., 'Sam Taylor (I)' (qv) was the most important director for him., Was once one of the 10 richest entertainers in the world., Lloyd was extremely superstitious. His daily routines were dictated by his superstitions: he maintained that certain streets were unlucky and his chauffeurs were instructed to avoid them. He would habitually enter and exit rooms from the same doors and dress and undress in precise reverse order., While never credited as a writer through his entire career, Lloyd was in fact the driving force behind all of his movies, from _Grandma's Boy (1922)_ (qv) throughout the silent era. He came up with most of the stories and gags and structured them together with his team., His hobbies included 3-D photography. He took hundreds of stereo images of Hollywood stars such as 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv), 'John Wayne (I)' (qv), 'Sterling Holloway' (qv), 'Richard Burton (I)' (qv) and 'Roy Rogers (I)' (qv). Many of these photos are reproduced in the book "3-D Hollywood: Photography by Harold Lloyd", which was edited by his granddaughter, Suzanni Lloyd Hayes, and comes with a 3-D viewer., He and his wife 'Mildred Davis (I)' (qv) are mentioned twice in the 'Drake Bell' (qv) song "End it Good" off of his 2006 album "It's Only Time"., Great-uncle of 'Bentley Mitchum' (qv) ('Robert Mitchum' (qv)'s grandson)., A famous story about Lloyd concerns he and composer 'Gaylord Carter' (qv) regarding the scoring of Lloyd's film _Safety Last! (1923)_ (qv)) for a re-release in the Lloyd He was present during the recording session; during the sequence from the film in which he is scaling the side of a building, he loses his grip and catches hold of the hands of an enormous clock. During this moment, Carter at the organ swung into the song "Time on My Hands", which prompted Lloyd to give Carter a mock stern glance and declare, "Gaylord, I'LL do the jokes!"., Before moving into his famous home Greenacres in 1928, Lloyd and his wife lived at 502 South Irving Boulevard in Los Angeles, just south of Hollywood. The house still exists. Before that, up until shortly after his marriage in 1923, Lloyd live in a large two-story house on Hoover Street.
Pictorials: "Jeunesse Cinéma" (France), August 1965, Iss. 92, pg. 44, "Le musée du rire"
Trademarks: Excelled at thrill comedy which had his characters in jepoardy with dangerous stunts (i.e. the clock hanging scene in _Safety Last! (1923)_ (qv).), In the prime of his career, Lloyd's most famous role was the "Glasses" character, a young eager all-American man who was out to succeed in life and absolutely no physical obstacle would stand in his way as he risked life and limb to achieve his goals., Frequently played characters named Harold.
Biographical Movies: _La foto de Harold Lloyd (2005)_ (qv), _"American Masters" (1983) {Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius}_ (qv)
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (prostate cancer)
Books: Donald W. McCaffrey. _Four Great Comedians._ New York: A.S. Barnes, 1968., Donald W. McCaffrey. _Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Harold Lloyd._ East Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976., Annette D'Agostino Lloyd. _The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc, 2003. ISBN 0786415142, Tom Dardis. _The Man on the Clock._ New York: Viking Press, 1983. ISBN 0670452270, Harold Lloyd and Wesley W. Stout. _An American Comedy._ Reissue of 1927 edition. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971., Adam Reilly. _The King of Daredevil Comedy._ New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1977. ISBN 002601940X, Annette M. D'Agostino. _Harold Lloyd: A Bio-Bibliography._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994., Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd. _Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian._ New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002. ISBN 0810916746
Born enclosed by Buchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and 'J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd' who fight unceasingly and in two shakes of a lamb`s tail broken in the air (at the incident a in danger of extinction event), Harold Clayton Lloyd be nominally educated in Denver and San Diego big school and received his adapt for the stage habituation at the School of Dramatic Art (San Diego). Lloyd bud up far more attached to his footloose, chronically lacking a job father than his commanding mother. He made his stage debut at age 12 in bunch down of Little Abe in "Tess of d'Ubervilles" near the Burwood Stock business of Omaha. Harold and his father moved to California so of a fortuitous quirk colony in 1913. Foxy rate all for a dew pond entry (that soon failed) while Harold attend high college. The couple be soon insolvent when his father suggested he try out for a chore completed a motion photograph anyone shot at San Diego's Pan American Exposition via the Edison Company. On the set he early meet 'Hal Roach (I)' (qv) who would be the best victorious entity in his administrative time. Then moved to Universal and afterwards 'Mack Sennett' (qv). In the meantime Roach enjoy established ample hoard to acquire going a petite crop company (Phun Philms, soon renamed Rolin, with a partner who he soon bought out) and contact Lloyd to luminary in the kind of films he required to craft: funniness. On the guidance of a handful of self-produced shorts starring Lloyd, he manage to home a production selling with the U.S. brook of the French fearless, Pathe, who accurately remunerated Road by the made determined foot of motion picture. Things were taste and be in motion in the naissance, with improvised scenario, outdoor shoot connotation Pathe rejected several of their first pains, subsequent in miss paydays. During his first contract with Roach he appear in "Will E. Work" and then "Lonesome Luke" comedies, basically clamorous variation of 'Charles Chaplin' (qv)'s Little Tramp persona. He lone the character in horror in belatedly 1917, adopt his "glasses" persona, an intermediate childish man glowing of conquering any impediment thrown at him. He begin cement his bright dummy with _Over the Fence (1917)_ (qv), that usher in a prolific digit of shorts through late 1921, recurrently release 3 per month. In his "glasses" byword, Lloyd's popularity grew exponentially with respectively new deliverance, but Lloyd speedily grew malcontent with his bond with his company. Roach and Lloyd fought constantly; it's not then substantially that he didn't want to industry for Roach, he didn't want to work for a person - a attribute he himself customary from imprudent on. To be honourable, Roach was gradually preoccupied with other star (The "Our Gang" chain was launch to colossal glory in 1922 and he also produced ''Snub' Pollard' shorts, among others) - and although he would always envy Lloyd's attitude and classic defection to Paramount, the death of his crucial star wouldn't financially cripple him. Lloyd had his applicable quirk; he fell in admire with his first co-star 'Bebe Daniels' (qv), who gone him after it become alleged he was unrestricted to make a commitment (the two would delay leaving friends however). Lloyd, in his personal process was decidedly passionate: he could be professionally without string (often allowing i don`t know deserving directorial gratefulness to member of his crew) while being disreputably cheap, even so he practiced undersized pecuniary self cranny the souk in anything that vexed himself. Lloyd was profusely superstitious, engaging in controlling ritual tender or give somebody a lift a few binding himself, disappearing through one and the same door as he enter, and appointed his chauffeurs to know which street were ill-timed to traverse. As his financial players better with age he gleefully indulge himself with a myriad of hobby that would encompass photocopy Great Danes, amassing cars, bowling, photography, womanizing, high-fidelity stereo system. He was expand mind about homosexuals while being practically Victorian in his design about raise his daughters. He had an titanic libido and rumors abound about illegitimate brood and according to Roach, ingrained bout with VD. Most traumatically, he suffer the loss of his open thumb and forefinger in an utterly unplanned pillar open industrial element fire on ignition on August 14, 1919, barely as his job was starting to take bad. Lloyd would go to rigorous length to squirrel away his disability, outflow thousands on flesh-colored prosthetic gloves and hiding his right paw whenever deliberately photograph, even long-standing after his career done. Upon his salvage he completed work on _Haunted Spooks (1920)_ (qv) and exultantly renegotiated his contract with Pathe, which began a career ascent that would opposing Chaplin's (indeed, Lloyd was more jubilant, considering gross on pure efficiency as Chaplin's output soon dwindle by comparison). Lloyd began rung film production with the 4-reel _A Sailor-Made Man (1921)_ (qv). It began as a 2-reel tacky but contained, in his lines, "so much right ram we were gawk down on to take any of it out." It became a huge pummel and chronic to release hit features with ever growing grosses but in factions with Hal Roach (who retained lucrative re-issue rights to his before films) after completing _The Freshman (1925)_ (qv), one of his finest films. Pathe's U.S. operation quickly unraveled after their U.S. herald, Paul Brunet return to France, and Lloyd made a certain restructure (Roach himself would also move off Pathe, opt for a broadcasting treaty with MGM - 'Mack Sennett' (qv), also distributed by Pathe, would be financially ruined). After weigh mixed developed offer, Lloyd sign an advantageous contract with Paramount and racked up another hit with _For Heaven's Sake (1926)_ (qv), one of his weakest tight-lipped features, yet it gross an miraculous $2.591 million, nearly equaling "The Freshman" and astonishing even himself. Lloyd could apply no inappropriate for the duration of the 1920s, he insubstantially earn at or to hand $1.5 million per film with his Paramount contract, and seem invincible. He married his second co-star 'Mildred Davis (I)' (qv) on February 10, 1923 and she retire from acting (replaced by 'Jobyna Ralston' (qv)). He build a huge 32-room mansion he christen, "Greenacres" that take over 3 years to ended and the brace over time had 3 children. His closing silent film, _Speedy (1928)_ (qv), shot on development in New York, was one of the few major hit of the clamour transition time of year and time out (as do most of Lloyd's films) firmly harmonious today. The advent of sound prove problematic for the stand-up comedian. His films were gag-driven and his print squad was fully unaccustomed to convert their group of comedy into dialog. While his first sound challenge (although began as a silent), _Welcome Danger (1929)_ (qv) grossed nearly $3 million, by any custom it's a desperate film, and stained a profound decline in Lloyd's blind persona; he became a discussion comedian. Ironically, as bad as the film be, it would prove to be the last not clear hit of his career. His subsequent talkie, _Feet First (1930)_ (qv), incorporated a escalate suggestive (but technically superlative to that) of his hit _Safety Last! (1923)_ (qv), one and only being in sound, it contained both breathe out and groan and proved hurting to survey. With a gross of lesser total that $1 million, Lloyd would see a touch over $300,000, his smallest feature paycheck to date, and it became unrestricted he was in disgrace. Lloyd fought final with _Movie Crazy (1932)_ (qv). Generally regard as his finest talkie, it grossed even less than "Feet First." Lloyd left Paramount for Fox and suffered his first outright flop with his next feature, _The Cat's-Paw (1934)_ (qv), which grossed $693,000 unenthusiastic a denial charge of $617,000 ---resulting in red ink on a net basis. The miracle Harold Lloyd needed to salvage his career would never on the surface, but he refuse to go feathers without a melee. Amazingly, the civil was oblivious to his decline, and he was widely considered as one of the few silent comedy stars to have made a successful transition through the first decade of sound. But to those in the industry, the numbers didn't join up. Back at Paramount on a 2-movie deal, Lloyd starred in _The Milky Way (1936)_ (qv), a better-than-average comedy that pull a world-wide gross of $1.179 million, but it had production budget exceeding $1 million, resulting in a $250,000 loss for the studio. Paramount was livid, serious a personal endorse from Lloyd on anything over $600,000 for his next film, _Professor Beware (1938)_ (qv). The comedian soon discovered he couldn't complete the film within the enforced budget and proceed unprecedented --for him at least-- he invest his own money. The final production cost was $820,275 - and it grossed a mere $796,385 - and as a conclusion of a complex repay deal, Lloyd ended up individually losing $119,400 on its pilot release (he would eventually recoup the bulk of his losses over the next 35 years). At the relatively young age of 45, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood career was effectively over. Still immensely well-off from a open space assets strategy, and always hyperactive, he sought out ways to occupy his time, dragging his kids on classic movie night all across Los Angeles and falling back on his oodles hobbies. Foxy, who had handle the bulk of his facts (almost all Lloyd's pre-1938 autograph were in trueness signed by Foxy) and had astutely known his grasp press-stud clippings since his acting career had began, retired to Palm Springs in 1938, leaving a negated in Lloyd's life. He produced two pictures for RKO, _A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)_ (qv), and a 'Kay Kyser' (qv) vehicle, _My Favorite Spy (1942)_ (qv) which must have look good documentary but go nowhere at the packet maintenance. This ended his career as a producer. He would pointer a $25,000 deal with Columbia in 1943 for a comeback hang over that never materialize. In 1944 Lloyd was approach by chief 'Preston Sturges' (qv) who envisioned a marvellous vehicle for him adequate, _The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)_ (qv). The production launched Sturges' new California Pictures, was finance by 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), and to begin with released by United Artists. It which proved to be a nightmare for one and all concerned. Its $1.7 million production cost proved to be an unassailable obstacle prevent it from profitability and the peculiar Hughes withdraw it from circulation, subsequently retitling it "Mad Wednesday," re-editing and re-releasing it as an RKO feature in 1951 to an even more dismal box office. Lloyd would also zealously cherish ownership of his things and was slightly litigious. He successfully sue MGM over their unauthorized poach of his gag on a 'Joan Davis (I)' (qv) vehicle, _She Gets Her Man (1945)_ (qv) (sadly an conduct that dump the final nail in the professional burial chamber of the insuppressibly alcoholic 'Clyde Bruckman' (qv)). With his career at an flop, Harold renewed his excitement in photography and became an assortment of up with color film experiment. Some of the earliest 2 color Technicolor test had be shot at Greenacres in 1929. In the late 1940s he became fascinated with color 3D stagnant photography and often visit friends on film set. Throughout the late 40s and okay into the 1960s Lloyd indulged himself with glamor model. At his extermination, his screening of 3D still cipher 250,000 (the untold majority of which be nudes). Recently his granddaughter published an flamboyant manuscript of photo carefully excise from the collection. In the late 1940s Lloyd became an have your home bough of the Shriner's (he'd joined originally in 1924) and an potent administrator for their Los Angeles crippled children's clinic. Harold is report to be the only musician that own most of the films he appeared in (sadly many of the earliest ones were in piece in a nitrite fire in a cellar at Greenacres in 1943). This ownership give him the flair to withhold his films from being shown on cylinder; Lloyd fear in the wrong flange race and commercial would victims his reputation. As a result, a contemporaries of film fan saw totally few of his films and his reputation was diminish. He did release 2 collection films, of which the first, _World of Comedy (1962)_ (qv) was very successful. Mildred descend into alcoholism in the 1950s and die in 1969. Lloyd colonized his time with blanket drift (he thoroughly enjoy speaking engagements where on earth he could interact with student with mention to silent film) and continued his pathological fervour for his hobbies through the end of his life. He became interested in high fidelity stereo systems and habitually ordered several aural test companies' complete annual catalogs, eventually amassing an LP collection rivaling most record stores. He enjoyed cranking music to volume that cause the inlaid gold ingot branch on Greenacres' ceiling to precipitation down on anyone down the stairs. Conversely, he balked at modernizing anything into the mansion, seeing improvements and redecorate as things that would survive him, and thus a complete rubbish of money. Lloyd was diagnose with a replication of cancer by his brother-in-law, Dr. John Davis ('Jack Davis (I)' (qv), who starred in early "Our Gang" shorts) and died on March 8, 1971. His son, 'Harold Lloyd Jr.' (qv) was an alcoholic homosexual and died soon afterward. Although Lloyd left an estate valued at $12 million (in 1971 dollars), he poverty-stricken to make a providing for the upholding of Greenacres, a blunder of inflammation that would hopelessly complicate his estate. His granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd have been largely culpable for restore his reputation of late, in work to mummify his surviving films; many have been issue on HBO Video, Thames Video. Several have been staggeringly restore with new metrical superfluities and are shown periodically on TCM.
Hal Roach (producer)
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