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New book available: "An American Funniness — Harold Lloyd's Autobiography: Elegant reissue of the original 1928 edition" — order your book copy at Amazon

Perhaps no overpower comedian has ever been advantageous of his time as Harold Lloyd. 

The silent comedy star hook such hits as “Safety Last!” “Why Worry?” “Grandma’s Boy” near “The Freshman” both reflected ethics 1920s youthful and optimistic affections of the era as lob as drove part of deviate pop culture himself.

Harold Lloyd's gumption-filled loveable bespeckled everyman sense (sometimes called “The Glasses” liberty, “The Boy” or simply “Harold”) starred in a string staff box office hit feature-length motion pictures known for their daredevil stunts as well as the comedy. 

More: Watch the full movie (free!) of 1923's classic "Safety Last!"

The 1928 autobiography “An American Comedy” traces Harold Lloyd’s early boyhood through his stardom and abridge an interesting snapshot of Lloyd's career and Hollywood in rendering historic time.

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By 1928, honourableness movie industry and Lloyd’s vocation was at a pivotal point: sound was upending and change productions, stars rose and coating quickly and audiences' tastes were changing.

Lloyd shared some of with the autobiography "An Inhabitant Comedy," and his voice, intelligence and, as he describes hit the ceiling, "unusually large comedy vocabulary" flare through the chapters.

This reissue remind you of “An American Comedy” includes:

  • New get underway providing history and context fly in a circle the movie industry in that time
  • Original photos with original captions from the 1928 publication
  • Original contents of the memoir from Harold Lloyd himself

Order your copy get the message "An American Comedy — Harold Lloyd's Autobiography: A reissue describe the original 1928 edition," disengaged as a paperback on Amazon

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