The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10, even if it ...

From the slimmest of means immortality is achieved: This is a statement that cuts two ways with a film starring Harold Lloyd, “Safety Last” (1923). The movie wasn’t the American comedian’s biggest box ...

Presented by the Music Box and the Silent Film Society of Chicago, this series of double features ($10.50 admission) showcases new prints from the silent and early sound career of slapstick master ...

Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin were major silent screen stars, but with his horn-rimmed glasses and straw hat, Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) was one of the most daring and beloved comedic stars of ...

The silent film star was one of the most popular screen comedians in the 1920s, outdrawing even Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. His films almost always had the same plot: a wimpy striver in round ...

When Harold Lloyd stopped in Chicago in the spring of 1923, publicists for his new film, Safety Last, wanted him to appear on the south tower of the Wrigley Building and dedicate its clock with a ...

To the world he was Harold Lloyd, prolific silent film star and Hollywood legend. To Suzanne Lloyd, he was her world. In many ways, he still is. As part of a celebration of her grandfather's legacy, ...

“Safety Last!,” the 1923 Harold Lloyd movie best known for the dangerous scene, marks its centennial. By David Belcher It is one of the most enduring images from the silent film era, and arguably the ...

Legendary slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd made audiences roar as a bespectacled everyman who managed to wriggle himself out of many a perilous situation all the while trying to get the girl Lloyds ...

In the pantheon of silent screen comedy legends, Harold Lloyd rests somewhere between the two reigning kings, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. While never quite achieving the artistic or commercial ...