HAROLD LLOYD - INSCRIBED PICTURE POSTCARD SIGNED - HFSID 86715
Price: $700.00
HAROLD LLOYD
Small black and white picture postcard photograph of Harold Lloyd
wearing a suit and tie helping a lady off camera try on a pair of shoes.
Picture postcard inscribed and signed: "To Francis Weger/My best
wishes/Harold Lloyd". B/w, 3½x5½ overall, image 3x4¼ (one surface). Name
imprinted at lower margin. Comedian/actor Harold Lloyd (1894-1971) made his film
debut in 1912 with the Edison Company as an extra. Over the next few years, he
had bit parts in Keystone and Universal comedies. In 1916-1917, Lloyd
appeared in about 100 shorts for Hal Roach as Lonesome Luke, a character
they created. In 1917, Roach experimented with a new character for Lloyd: an
average young man wearing a pair of oversized black horn-rimmed glasses that
were to become Lloyd's trademark for the rest of his brilliant comedy
career. Despite his bookish look, Lloyd's films were characterized by comedy
situations involving dangerous stunts in which no doubles were ever used,
resulting in Lloyd being nicknamed "The King of Daredevils". Lloyd dangling
from atop a skyscraper with nothing to hold on to but the hand of a clock
(Safety Last, 1923) is one of the most famous scenes in the history of
film comedy. In the 1920s, his films often outdrew those of his rivals,
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, at the box office. Lightly creased at
corners. Otherwise, fine condition.
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