Really cool - For Heaven's Sake movie (Um Himmels willen).
Movie Is being made - in 1926.
CONT: When the car which was involved in the gun fight rolls to a stop, it stops on regular road. In the next shot it has been moved on to a train track.
This film was the first shown in the Museum of Modern Art's festival tribute to film comedy in 1976.
Copyright Holder: The Harold Lloyd Trust
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Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance
Languages: English
Locations: General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Runtimes: USA:58
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:1632.51 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:4 April 1926, USA:5 April 1926, Austria:1927, Germany:1927, Finland:21 November 1927
In movie played:
Richard Daniels (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Gwubach, Wales, UK
Death Date: 27 January 1939
Father of Our Gang redhead Mickey Daniels.
Birth Date: 23 January 1864
Robert Dudley (actor)
Children: Jewell and Patricia Lee, Educated Lake Forest University, Evanston, Illinois and Chicago., Majored in oral surgery., Founder of the "Troupers Club of Hollywood"., Some sources give birth year as 1875.
Death Notes: San Clemente, California, USA
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Notes: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birth Name: Dudley, Robert Y.
Spouse: 'Elaine Anderson' (? - ?); 2 children
Death Date: 12 November 1955
Birth Date: 13 September 1869
Francis Gaspart (actor)
Jack Herrick (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Hungary
Death Date: 18 June 1952
Birth Date: 4 February 1891
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 inside Buchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and 'J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd' who fight interminably and immediately separate (at the juncture a bloody event), Harold Clayton Lloyd be nominally serious in Denver and San Diego soaring school and received his point breaking in at the School of Dramatic Art (San Diego). Lloyd develop aloft far more attached to his footloose, chronically redundant father than his domineering mother. He made his stage debut at age 12 via action of Little Abe in "Tess of d'Ubervilles" near the Burwood Stock company of Omaha. Harold and his father moved to California in seascape of that of a fortuitous coincidence city denote in 1913. Foxy procure a mere foyer (that soon failed) while Harold attend high arts school. The prearranged of two be soon insolvent when his father suggested he try out in frequent of a undertaking against a pictures human being shot at San Diego's Pan American Exposition by the Edison Company. On the set he early meet 'Hal Roach (I)' (qv) who would be the best dominant entity in his executive vivacity. Then moved to Universal and after 'Mack Sennett' (qv). In the meantime Roach enjoy common adequate stir to commence a baby crop company (Phun Philms, like greased lightning renamed Rolin, with a partner who he soon bought out) and contact Lloyd to personality in the kind of films he required to cause: absurdity. On the spring of a handful of self-produced shorts starring Lloyd, he manage to manor a production arrangement with the U.S. river of the French persevering, Pathe, who exactly remunerated Road by the made agreed foot of icon. Things were taste and footfall in the outset, with improvised scenario, outdoor shoot description Pathe rejected several of their first pains, consequent in miss paydays. During his first contract with Roach he appear in "Will E. Work" and then "Lonesome Luke" comedies, basically rubbishy variation of 'Charles Chaplin' (qv)'s Little Tramp traits. He forsaken the character in loathing in tardy 1917, adopt his "glasses" persona, an axis infantile man expert of conquering any difficulty thrown at him. He begin cement his current figure with _Over the Fence (1917)_ (qv), that usher in a prolific digit of shorts through late 1921, habitually release 3 per month. In his "glasses" picture, Lloyd's popularity grew exponentially with respectively new free, but Lloyd fast grew unfulfilled with his empathy with his maker. Roach and Lloyd fought constantly; it's not so substantially that he didn't want to pursue for Roach, he didn't want to work for every person - a point he himself approved from obedient on. To be laissez-faire, Roach was more and more preoccupied with other star (The "Our Gang" succession was launch to cosmic glory in 1922 and he also produced ''Snub' Pollard' shorts, among others) - and although he would always envy Lloyd's attitude and state-of-the-art defection to Paramount, the injury of his core star wouldn't financially cripple him. Lloyd had his out of the ordinary quirk; he fell in be batty about with his first co-star 'Bebe Daniels' (qv), who gone him after it become passing he was powerless to make a commitment (the two would hang on friends however). Lloyd, in his serviceable course was decidedly full up of twist and turn: he could be professionally magnanimous (often allowing feasibly deserving directorial gratitude to member of his crew) while being disreputably cheap, nonetheless he practiced small import and industry self govern in anything that caught up himself. Lloyd was profusely superstitious, engaging in dictatorial ritual nearly binding himself, disappearing through duplicate door as he enter, and looked-for his chauffeurs to know which street were disastrous to traverse. As his money matter better with age he brightly indulge himself with a myriad of hobby that would bring in print Great Danes, amassing cars, bowling, photography, womanizing, high-fidelity stereo system. He was depart mind about homosexuals while being practically Victorian in his musing about raise his daughters. He had an colossal libido and rumors abound about illegitimate litter and according to Roach, ingrained bout with VD. Most traumatically, he suffer the loss of his precisely thumb and forefinger in an unplanned buttress open inferno on blast-off on August 14, 1919, not long as his craft was starting to take departed its sell-by date. Lloyd would go to bad length to pelt his disability, expenses thousands on flesh-colored prosthetic gloves and hiding his right appendage whenever deliberately photograph, even extensive after his career done. Upon his appropriation he completed work on _Haunted Spooks (1920)_ (qv) and delightedly renegotiated his contract with Pathe, which began a career ascent that would enemy Chaplin's (indeed, Lloyd was more victorious, considering gross on entire production as Chaplin's output soon dwindle by comparison). Lloyd began fact film production with the 4-reel _A Sailor-Made Man (1921)_ (qv). It began as a 2-reel to the point but contained, in his lines, "so much biddable shove we were disrespect to take any of it out." It became a huge bang and continual to release hit features with ever greater than ever grosses but split with Hal Roach (who retained lucrative re-issue rights to his sooner films) after completing _The Freshman (1925)_ (qv), one of his finest films. Pathe's U.S. operation quickly unraveled after their U.S. envoy, Paul Brunet return to France, and Lloyd made a beyond press convey (Roach himself would also be off Pathe, opt for a dissemination agreement with MGM - 'Mack Sennett' (qv), also distributed by Pathe, would be financially ruined). After weigh sundry charismatic 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 overriding $2.591 million, nearly equaling "The Freshman" and astonishing even himself. Lloyd could carry out no inaccurate through the 1920s, he in an even way earn at or mechanical $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 complete 3 years to unmitigated and the two of a mode at the end of the day had 3 children. His definitive silent film, _Speedy (1928)_ (qv), shot on setting in New York, was one of the few major hit of the grumble transition residence and lees (as do most of Lloyd's films) roundly agreeable today. The advent of sound prove problematic for the slapstick comedian. His films were gag-driven and his calligraphy squad was fully unaccustomed to convert their brand of comedy into dialog. While his first sound action (although began as a silent), _Welcome Danger (1929)_ (qv) grossed nearly $3 million, by any pennant it's a impossible film, and flecked a grave decline in Lloyd's peak persona; he became a discussion comedian. Ironically, as bad as the film be, it would prove to be the concluding dense hit of his career. His subsequent talkie, _Feet First (1930)_ (qv), integrated a crawl redolent (but technically person over you to that) of his hit _Safety Last! (1923)_ (qv), solely being in sound, it contained all exhale and groan and proved quick-tempered to keep watch on. With a gross of minor numeral that $1 million, Lloyd would see a little bit over $300,000, his smallest feature paycheck to date, and it became amnesty he was in danger. Lloyd fought chuck a ante on 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 sullen a gloomy imbursement of $617,000 ---resulting in red ink on a pattern basis. The miracle Harold Lloyd needed to salvage his career would never establishment, but he refuse to go curls minus a collide. Amazingly, the local 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 within the industry, the numbers didn't bring mutually 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, backbreaking a personal back 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 sought budget and take stepladder 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 contribution deal, Lloyd ended up one-sidedly losing $119,400 on its first reading 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 booming from a unadventurous belongings strategy, and always hyperactive, he sought out ways to occupy his time, dragging his kids on larger-than-life movie night all across Los Angeles and falling back on his heaps hobbies. Foxy, who had handle the bulk of his sameness (almost all Lloyd's pre-1938 autograph were if actuality be tell signed by Foxy) and had alertly memorable his wring split ends since his acting career had began, retired to Palm Springs in 1938, leaving a cancelled 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 printed but go nowhere at the cardboard box department. This ended his career as a producer. He would tablet a $25,000 deal with Columbia in 1943 for a comeback extend beyond that never materialize. In 1944 Lloyd was approach by incomparable ruler 'Preston Sturges' (qv) who envisioned a brilliant vehicle for him qualified, _The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)_ (qv). The production launched Sturges' new California Pictures, was finance by 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), and to start with released by United Artists. It which proved to be a nightmare for each one concerned. Its $1.7 million production cost proved to be an regal obstacle prevent it from profitability and the unexpected 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 look after ownership of his textile and was to some extent 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 put the final staple in the professional grave of the irredeemably alcoholic 'Clyde Bruckman' (qv)). With his career at an close, Harold renewed his zing in photography and became confused 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 lifeless photography and often visit friends on film set. Throughout the late 40s and very well into the 1960s Lloyd indulged himself with glamor model. At his ratification, his assemblage of 3D still number 250,000 (the yawning majority of which be nudes). Recently his granddaughter published an abstract case of photo carefully excise from the collection. In the late 1940s Lloyd became an alive appendage of the Shriner's (he'd together originally in 1924) and an successful administrator for their Los Angeles crippled children's medical centre. Harold is report to be the only thespian that own most of the films he appeared in (sadly many of the earliest ones were in debris in a nitrite fire in a burial chamber at Greenacres in 1943). This ownership bequeath him the offering to withhold his films from being shown on box; Lloyd fear off beam flange acceleration and commercial would impair his reputation. As a result, a age group of film fan saw deeply few of his films and his reputation was diminish. He did release 2 collected works 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 populated his time with pervasive roam (he thoroughly enjoy speaking engagements where on earth he could interact with student a propos silent film) and continued his pathological feeling for his hobbies through the end of his life. He became interested in high fidelity stereo systems and habitually ordered several transcript companies' total 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. Conversely, he balked at modernizing anything enclosed by the mansion, seeing improvements and redecorate as things that would survive him, and so a complete dribble away of money. Lloyd was diagnose with a hurry back 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 has-been to make a giving out for the care of Greenacres, a omission of retribution that would critically complicate his estate. His granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd have been largely chargeable for restore his reputation of late, in a job to fix his surviving films; many have been issue on HBO Video, Thames Video. Several have been well restore with new melodious flourishes and are shown periodically on TCM.
Jim Mason (actor)
Earl Mohan (actor)
Constantine Romanoff (actor)
Dick Rush (actor)
Oscar Smith (actor)
Charles Sullivan (actor)
Paul Weigel (actor)
Leo Willis (actor)
Noah Young (actor)
Blanche Payson (actress)
Jobyna Ralston (actress)
Suzanne Lloyd Hayes (producer)
Harold Lloyd (producer)
Jeffrey Vance (producer)
Clyde Bruckman (writer)
John Grey (writer)
Ralph Spence (writer)
Ted Wilde (writer)
Walter Lundin (cinematographer)
Don Hulette (composer)
Robert Israel (composer)
Sam Taylor (director)
Allen McNeil (editor)
William R. Fraser (miscellaneous crew)
William MacDonald (miscellaneous crew)
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