David Jeffers for NCRD Performing Arts
Wednesday May 25, 4:00pm, NCRD Performing Arts Center
"Say, Barney Oldfield, what are you trying to do - run away from your rear tires?"
A boy with a paralyzing fear of girls (and a panic stutter), writes a manual on the art of seduction. On his way to find a publisher, he meets a girl.
Girl Shy is all about the chase. Harold resolves to save his girl from the clutches of the villain, by any means possible. He commandeers numerous cars, hitches a ride on a fire engine, steals a wagon, three horses, a streetcar and a motorcycle in a mad dash to stop a wedding that must not take place. Lovely Jobyna Ralston returns for her second of six features with Lloyd and - courtesy of Hal Roach - several Our Gang kids make surprise cameos. Viewed through a modern lens, Girl Shy is an unkind joke, with a young man's disability as the butt. In spite of this it possesses the sentimental, off-kilter hilarity Lloyd played so well, in a less serious time.
NCRD Performing Arts Center presents Harold Lloyd's Girl Shy (1924), the second of three silent films featuring live musical accompaniment performed by pianist Liz Cole.
"Say, Barney Oldfield, what are you trying to do - run away from your rear tires?"
A boy with a paralyzing fear of girls (and a panic stutter), writes a manual on the art of seduction. On his way to find a publisher, he meets a girl.
Girl Shy is all about the chase. Harold resolves to save his girl from the clutches of the villain, by any means possible. He commandeers numerous cars, hitches a ride on a fire engine, steals a wagon, three horses, a streetcar and a motorcycle in a mad dash to stop a wedding that must not take place. Lovely Jobyna Ralston returns for her second of six features with Lloyd and - courtesy of Hal Roach - several Our Gang kids make surprise cameos. Viewed through a modern lens, Girl Shy is an unkind joke, with a young man's disability as the butt. In spite of this it possesses the sentimental, off-kilter hilarity Lloyd played so well, in a less serious time.
NCRD Performing Arts Center presents Harold Lloyd's Girl Shy (1924), the second of three silent films featuring live musical accompaniment performed by pianist Liz Cole.
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