| Grandma's Boy | |
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| Directed by | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| Produced by | Hal Roach (uncredited) |
| Written by | Hal Roach Sam Taylor Jean C. Havez |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd |
| Distributed by | Hal Roach Studios |
| Release date(s) | September 3, 1922 |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Grandma's Boy is a 1922 Family comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. The film was highly influential, helping to pioneer feature-length comedies which combined gags with character development.
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Lloyd plays the grandma's boy, a timid coward who cannot muster courage to woo his girl and is afraid of his rival. His loving grandma gives him a magic charm from the Civil War which gives him the courage to capture a town criminal and win the girl. The "magic charm" turns out to be the handle of her umbrella and his grandma was pretending it all along. This film was an immensely popular, commercially successful film in its time.