| Movie Crazy | |
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| Directed by | Clyde Bruckman Harold Lloyd (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Harold Lloyd (uncredited) |
| Written by | Vincent Lawrence |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd Constance Cummings Kenneth Thomson |
| Music by | Alfred Newman (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Walter Lundin |
| Editing by | Bernard W. Burton |
| Studio | The Harold Lloyd Film Corporation |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 12, 1932 |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Movie Crazy is a 1932 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd in his third sound feature.
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Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies.
After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic genius.
The film was a major box office success. An estimated $675,000 was spent on the production and the film grossed over $1,439,000 in the United States alone. The film also proved to be a major critical success as the vast majority of film reviewers praised the picture highly. [1]
In 1962, the scenes from this film were included in a compilation film produced by Harold Lloyd himself entitled Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and created a renewal of interest in the comedian by introducing him to a whole new generation.