Originally published at: An ode to Harold Lloyd | Boing Boing
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Uh, Douglas Fairbanks? Mary Pickford? Lillian Gish?
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Edna Purviance was one of my early crushes. I’m not sure she was ever a household name, but she was certainly quite famous for a little while.
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And just muse over the fun fact that he hung from that clock (even as it used perspective that made it so the fall wasn’t as bad as it seemed) with only eight fingers. Having had his right thumb and index finger blown off in an accident with a prop bomb mistaken in 1919
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Well, you know . . . millenials , , , what can you expect.
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So that’s who this guy is supposed to be!
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Harold Lloyd kept me company in the summer of 1968 (I was 12; so not quite “babysitting”) while my father was using his estate to take pictures of Monica Vitti, an Italian actress. I remember his glove (to hold/hide his prosthetic fingers), and that it was quite boring and awkward, making small talk with this strange old man. I loved his movies, but I couldn’t associate the young man in the movies with the old man sitting next to me. He showed me his Christmas tree which he kept up year-round.
He was a big fan of photography and of my dad, who was a well-known glamor photographer. I learned later that Lloyd was a 3-D photography nerd!
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Yeah, his daughter published a book years ago of his 3D nudes. The 3D glasses it came with were shaped like his glasses.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10848194/10848194
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Wow great story, i’m gonna click around to see who else kept you company! 
If you want more Lloyd history, a great documentary by Kevin Brownlow is available at:
I may have unconventional tastes, but I rank Keaton as A+, Lloyd a solid A, and Chaplin only B+.
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He must have had one hell of a handshake.
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Hadn’t heard of nudes, wow; came out in 2004. The granddaughter’s first book, in 1992, was “3-D Hollywood”. It has a number of glamour shots of Marilyn Monroe, but she’s got a swimsuit on. And, possibly, the radio. There are some,in lingerie, at her house in 1952, with her bookshelf behind her: Tolstoy, Wilde - and, foreshadowing, Arthur Miller.
(It is ‘granddaughter’ - but she grew up with the grandparents, and called him ‘Daddy’, it says.)
It has Hollywood history in it from past his time. As a movie grandee, he could waltz onto sets for anything being shot near his Hollywood home, take a few 3-D snaps, pose with Bob Hope or Richard Burton for their vanity walls.
Incidentally, pages 22, 34, 38, 81, 83, 89 and 93, and 95 have reversed left-and-right images, which took me a bit of eye-ache to suss out. I trust she got her pages straight for the undoubtedly-more-popular nudes.
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I wonder if silent film buff Woody Allen (Love and Death) borrowed this
from this
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