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7.7/10
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A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.
- Awards
- 1 win total
Henry A. Barrows
- Publisher Roger Thornsby
- (uncredited)
Ethel Broadhurst
- Publisher Woman
- (uncredited)
Sammy Brooks
- Short Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Billy Butts
- Little Boy
- (uncredited)
Joe Cobb
- Boy in Tailor Shop
- (uncredited)
Jackie Condon
- Boy Having Pants Sewn
- (uncredited)
Mickey Daniels
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Andy De Villa
- Traffic Cop
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Dorr
- Girl With the Curls
- (uncredited)
F.F. Guenste
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Betsy Ann Hisle
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- First Bootlegger
- (uncredited)
Priscilla King
- Girl
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMany of the exterior shots were filmed at Holmby House, the massive estate owned by Arthur Letts, owner of Bullock's Department Stores. Harold Lloyd did not move into his Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills until 1929, five years after this movie was released.
- GoofsWhen Mary's car goes off the road and in a close shot she takes out the Cracker Jack box, there is a reflection in the side of the car (bottom left) of a pair of legs standing nearby, then walking away.
- Quotes
Big Publishing Office Girl: I just love cave men!
- Alternate versionsIn addition to the 'My Vampire' and 'My Flapper' sequences, there was a third interlude involving the girl with the curls, where Harold finds her as a Mary Pickford-type milk maid. The scene does not survive (it was cut after a preview) but a photograph of the scene has appeared in several publications.
- ConnectionsFeatured in World of Comedy (1962)
Featured review
Harold Lloyd's latest may well be called his best. There is so much action jammed into this picture that when it once gets under way one forgets the opening is rather slow. The last two reels move along so fast, with so many thrills, that the average audience is going to stand up and howl. It's a wow of a comedy picture!
The story is by Sam Taylor, Tommy Gray, Tim Whelen and Ted Wilde. Taylor, together with Fred Newmeyer, directed.
Lloyd is a small-town tailor's apprentice, frightfully girl shy and prone to stuttering. In secret, however, he fancies himself as an author and feels the urge to write a book on girls and women, with himself figuring as the heroic character in a series of romances that are 16 in number.
It is this script that brings him in contact with the rich girl. He is on his way to the city with the script when he meets her on the train. There is a lot of good laugh stuff in the train scene, the first wow coming when he rescues the toy dog belonging to the heiress. The hiding of the dog to get past the conductor and the subsequent complications are also good for laughs.
The biggest of the picture, however, is the chase stuff that runs through both of the final reels. It starts off with Lloyd becoming aware his book has been accepted and he is the receipt of $3,000 advance royalties, this followed by the discovery of the fact that "the girl" is going to be married to his rival, who already has a wife, starts him off hotfoot for the scene of the wedding. What he goes through to get there is beyond the mere power of a typewriter to describe. It is a chase that caps anything else that has ever been done on the screen.
Playing the lead opposite Lloyd is Jobyna Ralston, who proves herself considerable of an actress in addition to being decidedly pretty. The heavy is Carlton Griffith. No one in the cast other than four characters are mentioned, and, as a matter of fact, no one except Lloyd and the girl remain in one's memory.
The chances are that with "Girl Shy," Lloyd is going to run up bigger sales gross than he has had with any of his previous productions.
The story is by Sam Taylor, Tommy Gray, Tim Whelen and Ted Wilde. Taylor, together with Fred Newmeyer, directed.
Lloyd is a small-town tailor's apprentice, frightfully girl shy and prone to stuttering. In secret, however, he fancies himself as an author and feels the urge to write a book on girls and women, with himself figuring as the heroic character in a series of romances that are 16 in number.
It is this script that brings him in contact with the rich girl. He is on his way to the city with the script when he meets her on the train. There is a lot of good laugh stuff in the train scene, the first wow coming when he rescues the toy dog belonging to the heiress. The hiding of the dog to get past the conductor and the subsequent complications are also good for laughs.
The biggest of the picture, however, is the chase stuff that runs through both of the final reels. It starts off with Lloyd becoming aware his book has been accepted and he is the receipt of $3,000 advance royalties, this followed by the discovery of the fact that "the girl" is going to be married to his rival, who already has a wife, starts him off hotfoot for the scene of the wedding. What he goes through to get there is beyond the mere power of a typewriter to describe. It is a chase that caps anything else that has ever been done on the screen.
Playing the lead opposite Lloyd is Jobyna Ralston, who proves herself considerable of an actress in addition to being decidedly pretty. The heavy is Carlton Griffith. No one in the cast other than four characters are mentioned, and, as a matter of fact, no one except Lloyd and the girl remain in one's memory.
The chances are that with "Girl Shy," Lloyd is going to run up bigger sales gross than he has had with any of his previous productions.
- Patrick-96
- Jul 4, 2002
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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