Harold Lloyd

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Vanity Fair January 1928

Harold Lloyd, whose clean-cut, Joe College characters were the 1920s' version of the Young Urban Professional, would have been 100 this April 20. Hardly young anymore. But in this centenary year, the bespectacled and boatered youth he called Glasses is popping up on screens around the country, spry as ever. Safety Last (1923)— yes, that's the one with the clock—is being screened on Lloyd's birthday at a benefit gala for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at U.C.L.A., and Manhattan's Film Forum is presenting "Harold Lloyd 100," a series of 17 features which gets under way April 30.