silent movies 1 research

Harold Lloyd was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. Harold along with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton was one of the most well loved comedians from the silent movie era.  

This is Harold in 1924.

Harold had made more then 200 movies silent or otherwise between 1914 and 1947. also he has made 12 individual movies compared to Chaplin's 4 and also making quite a bit more because overall he made $15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million

Plus His films quite often contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! As a side note these feats are totally one manned since he had no wires supporting him and in Safety last he hung from the clock all by himself and if he fall it was most defiantly kill him.

Additionally during an unfortunately shoot a bomb was mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, but it never went unnoticed.

In 1910 after his mother and father divorced and the reason to this is that his father business ventures failed and Lloyd moved to san Diego with his father.  In 1914 Lloyd hired Bebe Daniels as a supporting actress the two known romantically as 'the Boy' and 'the Girl' In 1919, she left Lloyd to pursue her dramatic aspirations. but to replace her Lloyd hired  Mildred Davis in 1919. it had been reported , the more Lloyd watched Davis the more he liked her. Lloyd's first reaction in seeing her was that "she looked like a big French doll!"