TYPED LETTER ***Signed***

Lloyd, Harold

Publication Date: 1966

About this Item

Signed "Harold Lloyd" in black ink. Letter measures 7.25" X 10.50" and has two mailing folds and staple holes on top left corner, otherwise in Fine condition. The letter is on Harold Lloyd's personal stationary and is dated November 25, 1966. It is addressed to Colin Young at University of California, Los Angeles and is offering a personal recommendation to Arthur Friedman. Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 ? March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. One of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. His bespectacled "Glass" character was a resourceful, ambitious go-getter who matched the zeitgeist of the 1920s-era United States. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street (dangerous, but risk exaggerated by camera angles) in Safety Last! (1923) is considered one of the most enduring images in cinema. Lloyd performed lesser stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, and was almost undetectable on the screen). Arthur Friedman was born in 1919 in Gary, Indiana; attended University of Wisconsin; earned a BA at UCLA (1941), where he majored in Sociology and Economics and acted in 18 plays; wrote and produced documentary programs for the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II; MA, University of Southern California; became instructor in acting and radio in the UCLA Theater Arts Dept.; Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1955; acted in films, television, and plays; developed sports broadcasting training program at UCLA; with his students, produced series of documentary films on the California prison system; conducted over 100 interviews with pioneers of entertainment in the program, Turning Point, as part of the UCLA Oral History Project; was founding curator of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/UCLA Television Archives, which became the UCLA Film Archives; he retired in 1990. Friedman passed away in 2001. The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included as part of the sale. Seller Inventory # 002973

Bibliographic Details

Title: TYPED LETTER ***Signed***

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)