Anything But Silent: Classics with Live Organ Accompaniment by MoMA’s Ben Model

Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/17/2015
7:30 pm

Location
Cinema Arts Centre

Category(ies)

• Arts
• Concert

Girl Shy (1924)

starring Harold Lloyd

In one of his funniest and most romantic movies, legendary silent comedian Harold Lloyd stars as a shy, young man, completely incapable of talking to women, who decides to write a book telling other bachelors how to find a girlfriend. Members $10 / Public $15. Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org or at the box office during theater hours

The Poor Boy (Harold Lloyd) is a bashful tailor’s apprentice who longs to be a published author. Heading for the city to sell his romantic anthology, he encounters the Rich Girl (Jobyna Ralston) on a train, and he helps her hide her dog from the conductor. Excited about a budding romance, the Poor Boy goes off to a publisher and gets rejected. Disheartened, he gives up on the Rich Girl, but when the publisher changes his mind, the Poor Boy tries to rekindle the spark of romance. This is the first film to appear under the banner of the Harold Lloyd Corporation. In essence a romantic comedy, the love scenes between Lloyd’s Poor Boy and  Jobyna Ralston’sRich Girl demonstrate that Lloyd’s talent for comedy is matched by his romantic sensibilities. (USA, 1924, 87 min., 35mm | Directors Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)