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Jobyna Ralston and Harold Lloyd.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Girl Shy
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7457 feet
Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd [Harold Meadows, the poor boy], Jobyna Ralston [Mary Buckingham, the rich girl], Richard Daniels [Uncle Jerry Meadows, the poor man], Carlton Griffin [Ronald DeVore, the rich man]; Joe Cobb [the boy playing in the tailor shop], Jackie Condon [the boy having his pants mended], [?] ? [the woman looking for her husband’s pants], Dorothy Dorr [the girl customer with the long curls], Nola Luxford [her cousin from Grand City / the vampire], Judy King [the needle and thread customer / the flapper], [?] ? [the romantic boy at the dance], [?] ? [the romantic girl at the dance], [?] ? [the fiddle player at the dance], [?] ? [the old man looking at Harold dancing], [?] ? [Mrs. Buckingham], [?] ? [the Buckingham maid], [?] ? [the automobile mechanic], [?] ? [the man who advises Mary to hide her dog], Charles Stevenson [the train conductor], [?] ? [the indignant passenger with the cane], Julian Rivero [the sleeping passenger], Sammy Brooks [the short passenger Harold sits on], [?] ? [the woman who moves the valice], [?] ? [the woman with the fox stole], Gus Leonard [the man with the long beard], [?] ? [the train Cracker Jack vendor], [?] ? [Roger Thornby], William Orlamond [Thornby’s assistant], Betsy Ann Hisle [the naked little swimming girl], [?] Billy Butts or Walter Wilkinson? [the naked little swimming boy], [?] Priscilla King? [DeVore’s secret wife in Little Bend], [?] ? [the publisher’s copy boy], [?] ? [the first typist], [?] ? [the second typist], [?] ? [the custodian], Andy De Villa [the whistle-blowing traffic cop], [?] Ethel Broadhurst? [the tall female admirer that Harold falls onto], [?] ? [the autograph seeker], [?] ? [the gazing admirer at the door], [?] ? [the woman on the park bench], [?] ? [the park Cracker Jack vendor], [?] ? [the man delivering the ‘love letter’], [?] ? [the old man on the train observation deck], [?] ? [the old woman on the train observation deck], [?] ? [the boy on the tricycle], [?] ? [the car owner who parks in his garage], [?] ? [the girl learning to drive], [?] ? [the man teaching the girl to drive], [?] ? [the picnicking man], [?] ? [the picknicking woman], F.F. Guenste [the Buckingham butler], [?] ? [the moustached man arriving at the wedding], Wallace Howe [the bootlegger with the flowers], [?] ? [the federal investigator], [?] ? [the moustached federal investigator], [?] ? [the pursuing car driver], [?] ? [the comandeered car driver], [?] ? [the comandeered car passenger], Hayes E. Robertson [the shabby car owner], [?] ? [the first horse attendant], [?] ? [the second horse attendant], [?] ? [the wedding priest], [?] ? [the female wedding guest with Mrs. Buckingham], [?] ? [the first trolley conductor], [?] ? [the second trolley conductor], [?] ? [the traffic cop after the trolley], [?] ? [the vegetable vendor], Earl Mohan [the sleeping trolley rider], [?] ? [the driver Harold drops in on], [?] ? [the motorcycle cop], [?] ? [the grocer at the Cahuenga Public Market], [?] ? [the first ditch digger], [?] ? [the wagon owner], Mickey Daniels [the newsboy], [?] ? [the bewildered motorcycle driver], [?] ? [the bewildered sidecar passenger], [?] ? [the bewildered car driver], [?] ? [the baby in the carriage], [?] ? [the first bridesmaid], [?] ? [the mailman]
The Harold Lloyd Corporation production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [A Pathé Picture]. / Scenario by Sam Taylor, from a screen story by Sam Taylor, Ted Wilde and Tim Whelan. Art direction by Liell K. Vedder. Technical direction by William MacDonald. Assistant director, Robert A. Golden. Photographed (cinematography) by Walter Lundin, assisted by Henry N. Kohler. Film editor, Allen McNeil. Intertitles written by Thomas J. Gray. / © 12 March 1924 by The Harold Lloyd Corporation [LU19987]. Trade screening, 28 March 1924 in New York, New York. Released 20 April 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Accidents: Automobile - African-Americans - Animals: Cats (Kittens), Dogs, Horses, Pigs, Tortoises - Attics - Birds: Chickens - Books: Advance checks, Manuscripts, Publishers - Boxes - Bravado - Bridges - Chases - Crime: Bootlegging, Theft (Automobile, Motorcycle, Wagon) - Disillusionment - Ditches - Dog biscuits - Engagements: Rings - Events: Dances - Fire equipment: Fire engines, Hoses - Flowers - Grocery stores - Handkerchiefs - Law enforcement: Arrests, Federal agents, Police - Misunderstandings - Newspapers - Parks - Photographs: Lockets - Police stations (Culver City) - Rejection - Roads: Closures, Detours, Dirt, Pavement, Small-town - Safes - Sewing machines - Street scenes (Los Angeles) - Stuttering - Sweet treats: Cracker Jack - Tailors: Apprentices - Telephones: Directories, Operators - Train stations: Cities (Los Angeles), Small towns - Transportation: Automobiles (Flat tires), Bicycles, Fire engines, Horses, Motorcycles (Sidecars), Streetcars, Taxi cars, Trains, Trolleys (Electric), Wagons - Typewriters - USA: California: Culver City, Los Angeles - Water: Ponds, Streams - Weapons: Guns: Pistols - Weddings: Plans - Whistles - Workmen: Ditch diggers
Listing updated: 4 April 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 471; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 7; Kerr-Silent pp. 192, 198, 202; Maltin-Classic p. 252; Reilly-Lloyd pp. xiv-xv, 4, 10; Shipman-Cinema p. 84; Sweeney-Coming p. 75 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb; Website-Lloyd.
Home video: DVD.
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