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Rated 3/5 Stars • 01/23/23. Harold Lloyd. The Boy. Bebe Daniels. The Girl. "Snub" Pollard. Director of Musical Comedy. Noah Young. The Bearcat's Bouncer.
- Comedy
103 years ago Harold Lloyd starred in this film and the idea that I can watch this film today is amazing to me Bumping into Broadway may not be a great film or have Harold Lloyd's best stunts but… ‘Bumping Into Broadway’ review by Jim Film • Letterboxd
I enjoy his shorts every bit as much as his features. Here he plays a struggling Broadway playwright who gets thrown out of the big boss' office at roughly the same time as stuggling Broadway chorus girl (Bebe Daniels) gets thrown out of the chorus line. Absolutely love the illustrated artistic intertitles and title cards to these shorts.
Bumping Into Broadway is a 1919 silent comedy film starring the legendary Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, and 'Snub' Pollard. Directed by Hal Roach, the film features Lloyd as a bumbling stage hand who dreams of becoming an actor, only to find himself in a series of misadventures that put his career and personal life at risk.
8/10. Restored Version From LLoyd Trust. DKosty123 24 January 2006. The restored version of this film plays pretty well. The orchestration on the TCM set version is pretty good. A couple of sequences are a little grainy & choppy. As usual, this is a LLoyd Romantic Comedy but the pace in this 25 minute short is more frantic than the features he ...
She's a chorus girl in unpaid tryouts for a Broadway show, behind in her rent, about to be evicted. He's in the room next door, from Peoria, struggling to write his first comedy; he's also behind in his rent. He gives her his last dollar so she can square with "Bearcat," the landlady, then he has to avoid Bearcat and her bouncer. Later, he tries to get his comedy read by the production manager ...
The 1919 silent film "Bumping Into Broadway" starred Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels as two young people trying to enter the New York City Broadway theatre world. The two are credited as "The Boy" and "The Girl."
