Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy
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Directed by	Clyde Bruckman; Harold Lloyd (uncredited)
Produced by	Harold Lloyd (uncredited)
Written by	Vincent Lawrence
Starring	Harold Lloyd; Constance Cummings; Kenneth Thomson
Music by	Alfred Newman (uncredited)
Cinematography	Walter Lundin
Edited by	Bernard W. Burton
Production; company	The Harold Lloyd Film Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 12, 1932;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$675,353[1]
Box office	$1,439,000[2]

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

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.

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.[2] The film also proved to be a major critical success as the vast majority of film reviewers praised the picture highly.[3]

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.

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References

Vance, Jeffrey and Suzanne Lloyd. "Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian" New York: Harry N Abrams. p 177
Box Office Gross for Movie Crazy
Los Angeles Times – Apr 10, 1932 – Page B15; New York Times – September 15, 1932 – Page F5; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Oct 17, 1932 – Page 16 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UZEnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933,1391741&dq=1932+movie-crazy&hl=en

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[1] Vance, Jeffrey and Suzanne Lloyd. "Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian" New York: Harry N Abrams. p 177

[MovieCrazyGross-2] Box Office Gross for Movie Crazy

[3] Los Angeles Times – Apr 10, 1932 – Page B15; New York Times – September 15, 1932 – Page F5; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Oct 17, 1932 – Page 16 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UZEnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933,1391741&dq=1932+movie-crazy&hl=en