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From: Daily Variety | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Tobias, Patricia Eliot | Copyright information

You know the scene. The wedding is taking place, but the gift is being forced to marry the wrong guy. Suddenly, the desperate hero bursts in to break up the nuptials, carrying off the bride in all her finery. It's the ending to a famous romantic comedy.

The Graduate, right? Nope. Think of an earlier film. Aha. How about It Happened One Night? Wrong again. It's the conclusion to Harold Lloyd's Girl Shy, made in 1924, and it's just one of many romantic comedies Lloyd broug...

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