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Harold Lloyd Room
Our Harold Lloyd room is richly decorated with period antiques, including a working ceiling fan. You will love the satin bed spread,
armoire, tasseled lamp shades and warm colors that fill this quiet end room.
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Harold Clayton Lloyd (April
20,
1893 –
March
8, 1971)
was an
American
film actor and
director, most famous for his
silent comedies.
Harold Lloyd ranks alongside
Charlie Chaplin and
Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film
comedians of the
silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent
and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his
"Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who
was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.
His films frequently 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! (1923) is one of the most enduring images in
all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous
stunts
himself, despite having injured himself during the filming of
Haunted Spooks (1920) when an accident with a prop bomb
resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand
(the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special
prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by
unnoticed).
Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially
successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific
(releasing twelve
feature films in the
1920s
while Chaplin released just three), and they made more money overall
($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth
- Sherlock Holmes
(by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
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