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HANG TIME Retrospective series pays belated tribute to Harold Lloyd
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'Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock'
When: Friday through July 7
Where: Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport
Admission: $9.25, $8.25
Phone: (773) 871-6604
Quick, name the silent film comedians that ruled the genre.
There's the shy gaze of Charlie Chaplin, the deadpan countenance of
Buster Keaton and ...
Only educated film buffs will round out the list by adding the
name Harold Lloyd. He was the equally gifted and successful star who
completed the trium...
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HANG TIME Retrospective series pays belated tribute to Harold Lloyd
Chicago Sun-Times
; 'Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock' When: Friday through July 7 Where: Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Admission: $9.25, $8.25 Phone: (773) 871-6604 Quick, name the silent film comedians that ruled the genre. There's the shy gaze of Charlie Chaplin, the deadpan countenance of Buster Keaton
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The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection.(Video Recording Review)
Variety
; A New Line Home Entertainment release of 15 feature films and 13 shorts starring Harold Lloyd. Release: Nov. 15 Seven-disc set: $89.95 Often referred to as the third genius of silent screen comedy, Harold Lloyd was frequently No. 1 at the 1920s box office and, extras in this collection make clear,
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All-American boy makes good: the life of Harold Lloyd.(Biography)
Daily Variety
; ... KING Harold Lloyd comedies are uniformly excellent ... Audiences now ask for them. Lloyd's name registers cash! --Motion Picture News, 1918 Theater exhibitors, polled by Film Daily in 1924, crowned Harold Lloyd the nation's No. 1 box office draw. By the close ...
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What Makes Comedy Tick?; On New DVDs, Harold Lloyd's Silent Films Stand The Test of Time
The Washington Post
; The films of the great silent-film star Harold Lloyd inspire two kinds of laughter. Mostly there is a mild, knowing laughter, a laughter that acknowledges, across the space of eight decades, that this must have been very funny when it was new. Then there are the laughs that take you by surprise,
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ENGLISH FILM MAKERS SPOTLIGHT LLOYD
The Boston Globe
; Harold Lloyd, the bespectacled film artist who hung precipitously from a clock more than 20 stories above downtown Los Angeles in "Safety Last" (1923), always has been in third place in the silent movie sweepstakes, behind Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Although he made more films than they,
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Harold Lloyd: A silent scream; TCM runs retrospective of his career.(ARTS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Harold Lloyd is usually conceded third place in the conventional ranking of silent film comedians behind Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The film historian Kevin Brownlow, for example, chose the title The Third Genius for his 1989 documentary feature
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Lloyd's photography obsession laid bare in 3-D
Chicago Sun-Times
; While Suzanne Lloyd wants her grandfather's films to appeal to a family audience, another aspect of his work is stamped "adults only." Starting in the late 1940s, Harold Lloyd took more than 100,000 photographs of women, many of them nude and many in 3-D. A selection is featured in Harold Lloyd's
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Harold Lloyd
Film Ireland
; 'He's a shy kinda guy/A pair of glasses and a smile'. It seems unlikely, but cheap filler material introduced Irish TV audiences of the 19803 to the work of one of the most enduring comedy icons of all time. TVfriendly nuggets of Harold Lloyd's silent antics were strung together into half-hour
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The mentor: Harold Lloyd and his circle of influence.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT)(Advertisement)
Daily Variety
; Harold Lloyd was a modest man, slow to praise himself and quick to share credit. Once, when asked to describe his success, he merely answered, I attribute my success to being born. Although he may have had an idea that he had contributed to the growth of the motion picture industry, he was not the
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The extraordinary skill of Harold Lloyd.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT)
Daily Variety
; Whenever I want to convert someone to silent pictures, I simply run a Lloyd feature. It works every time. Lloyd made 11 in the 1920s--compared to Chaplin's four--and all of them are superb. It has been a source of mystery to me why Lloyd has been so neglected. I have been a fervent admirer since I
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