Movie Crazy

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Movie Crazy

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Directed by Clyde Bruckman
Harold Lloyd (uncredited)
Produced by Harold Lloyd (uncredited)
Written by Vincent Lawrence (screenplay and dialogue)
Starring Harold Lloyd (Harold Hall)
Constance Cummings (Mary Sears)
Kenneth Thomson (Vance)
Music by Alfred Newman (uncredited)
Cinematography Walter Lundin
Editing by Bernard W. Burton
Release date(s) August 12, 1932 (US premiere)
Running time 98 min (restored version)
81 min (US re-release)
Country  United States
Language English

Movie Crazy is a 1932 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, a popular comedian of the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Lloyd's third sound feature.

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[edit] Plot

Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic genius.

[edit] Background

Harold Lloyd released this film before going on a trip to Europe, confident that it would be a great success. Instead, it was a relative failure at the time - his style of comedy was going out of fashion as the Great Depression made life more and more gloomy for many people.

[edit] Renewed interest in Harold Lloyd

In 1962, the scenes from this film were included in a compilation film produced by Harold Lloyd himself entitled Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy [1]. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and created a renewal of interest in the comedian by introducing him to a whole new generation.

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