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Wikipedia article




'Movie Crazy' is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Harold Lloyd in his third sound feature.

The film's copyright was renewed in 1959.

Plot



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

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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.

Cast



* Harold Lloyd as Harold Hall / Trouble

* Constance Cummings as Mary Sears

* Kenneth Thomson as Vance

* Louise Closser Hale as Mrs Kitterman

* Spencer Charters as J.L. O'Brien

* Robert McWade as Wesley Kitterman, Producer

* Eddie Fetherston as Bill (assistant director)

* Sydney Jarvis as The Director

* Harold Goodwin as Miller

* Mary Doran as Margie

* DeWitt Jennings as Mr Hall

* Lucy Beaumont as Mrs Hall

* Arthur Housman as the Customer "Who Didn't Order Rabbit"

* Grady Sutton as the "Man Afraid of Mice"

* Noah Young as Traffic Policeman

* Edward Peil Sr. as Waiter (uncredited)

Background



The film was a major box office success. An estimated $675,000 was spent on the production and the film grossed over $1,439,000 in the United States alone. The film also proved to be a major critical success as the vast majority of film reviewers praised the picture highly.Los Angeles Times  April 10, 1932  Page B15; New York Times  September 15, 1932  Page F5; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  October 17, 1932  Page 16 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UZEnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933,1391741&dq=1932+movie-crazy&hl=en Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller provided gags for the film.[https://books.google.com/books?id=IWqjaXc_4QUC&pg=PA98&dq=%22ernie+bushmiller%22+%22movie+crazy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VmfZUc_KJYr5qwHbxIHICw&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers: 1945 - 1980], by Moira Davison Reynolds; published 2003, by McFarland & Company (via Google Books)

Renewed interest in Harold Lloyd



In 1962, scenes from this film were included in a compilation film produced by Harold Lloyd himself entitled 'Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy'. 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.

See also



*List of United States comedy films

References




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