Harold Lloyd, in his Glass Characterizations, believes that he can overcome whatever obstacle is thrown his way, and faces adversity with fervor and passion. He smiles a lot; we like him, and on the whole, we can see why others like him too. A fundamental thing our society lacks today is a body of positive role models for young people.
Harold was that role model for me and it affected my life deeply. That is but one reason why I always encourage families to watch and enjoy the Lloyd films, either in theatres, on cable, or on DVD — parents will never be ashamed, embarrassed, puzzled, or bewildered by these wonderful pictures — they are golden family anchors. I could go on and on and on about why Harold Lloyd to coin a phrase rocks my world.
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Share this:. Skip to toolbar Log In Search. The pair of exposures were then placed on paper framed with glass and aluminum that were viewed like slides through a magnifying glass. When the images were seen in this manner, they appeared as a single 3D photo with the background and foreground different from one another. Popular people from the industry were enthusiastic about being photographed.
Stars such as Mary Pickford and Alan Ladd were included in the list, as well as some unknown people. After some weeks, Philippe Halsman who was a friend of Lloyd asked him to accompany Halsman to capture photographs of Monroe for the magazine cover of Life. Both the photographers took pictures of the new actress who was destined to be one of the most popular personalities of Hollywood.
When Lloyd had no model to photograph, he used to take images of his young granddaughter however she used to feel bored from the activity of posing.
The estate left the possession of the Lloyd family in , after a failed attempt to maintain it as a public museum. The grounds were subsequently subdivided, but the main house and the estate's principal gardens remain and are frequently used for civic fundraising events and as a filming location, appearing in films like Westworld and The Loved One. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The show presented half-hour radio adaptations of recently successful film comedies, beginning with Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young.
Robinson , Jane Wyman , and Alan Young , among others. But the show's half-hour format—which meant the material might have been truncated too severely—and Lloyd's sounding somewhat ill at ease on the air for much of the season though he spent weeks training himself to speak on radio prior to the show's premiere, and seemed more relaxed toward the end of the series run may have worked against it.
Many years later, acetate discs of 29 of the shows were discovered in Lloyd's home, and they now circulate among old-time radio collectors. Lloyd remained involved in a number of other interests, including civic and charity work. Inspired by having overcome his own serious injuries and burns, he was very active as a Shriner with the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. During both appearances, Lloyd's hand injury can clearly be seen. He became known for his nude photographs of models, such as Bettie Page and stripper Dixie Evans , for a number of men's magazines.
He also took photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging at his pool in a bathing suit, which were published after their deaths. In , his granddaughter Suzanne produced a book of selections from his photographs, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! ISBN Lloyd also provided encouragement and support for a number of younger actors, such as Debbie Reynolds , Robert Wagner , and particularly Jack Lemmon , whom Harold declared as his own choice to play him in a movie of his life and work.
Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement. Lloyd did not grant cinematic release because in the main most theaters could not accommodate an organist, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: "I just don't like pictures played with pianos. We never intended them to be played with pianos".
That's a high price, but if I don't get it, I'm not going to show it. They've come close to it, but they haven't come all the way up". As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available. Also, Lloyd's film character was so intimately associated with the s era that attempts at revivals in s and s were poorly received, when audiences viewed the s and silent film in particular as old-fashioned.
The first film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival , where Lloyd was feted as a major rediscovery. The renewed interest in Lloyd helped restore his status among film historians. Throughout his later years he screened his films for audiences at special charity and educational events, to great acclaim, and found a particularly receptive audience among college audiences: "Their whole response was tremendous because they didn't miss a gag; anything that was even a little subtle, they got it right away".
Following his death, and after extensive negotiations, most of his feature films were leased to Time-Life Films in As Tom Dardis confirms: "Time-Life prepared horrendously edited musical-sound-track versions of the silent films, which are intended to be shown on TV at sound speed, and which represent everything that Harold feared would happen to his best films". Through the efforts of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and the support of granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd Hayes , the British Thames Silents series re-released some of the feature films in the early s on home video, at corrected projection speeds and with new orchestral scores by Carl Davis.
More recently, the remainder of Lloyd's great silent features and many shorts were fully restored, with new orchestral scores by Robert Israel. Annette Lloyd has also said that if there is a large-enough show of support by fans, a second collection may be released in the future [ citation needed ].
In , Lloyd received a special Academy Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen. Regardless of the political overtones, Lloyd accepted the award in good spirit. Lloyd died at age 77 from prostate cancer on March 8, , in Beverly Hills , California. Harold Lloyd has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His was only the fourth ceremony preserving his handprints, footprints, autograph, and outline of his famed glasses which were actually a pair of sunglasses with the lenses removed , at Grauman's Chinese Theatre , in In , he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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