Movie Crazy

1932
U
1h 24m

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Constance Cummings and Harold Lloyd in Movie Crazy (1932)

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.

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7.1/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Hall

Constance Cummings

Mary Sears

Kenneth Thomson

Vance

Louise Closser Hale

Mrs. Kitterman

Spencer Charters

J.L. O'Brien

Robert McWade

Wesley Kitterman

Eddie Fetherston

Bill
(as Eddie Fetherstone)

Sydney Jarvis

The Director

Harold Goodwin

Miller

Mary Doran

Margie

DeWitt Jennings

Mr. Hall
(as De Witt Jennings)

Lucy Beaumont

Mrs. Hall

Arthur Housman

Customer Who Didn't Order Rabbit

Bruce Bennett

Dinner Guest
(uncredited)

Jack Chefe

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Harold's Classmate Bill
(uncredited)

James Ford

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Wally Howe

Minor Role
(uncredited)

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7/10

One of the best Lloyd's Talkies

MOVIE CRAZY certainly is one of the best Lloyd's Talkies. From the opening gag on there are so many enjoyable moments only Lloyd knows how to provide. The screen test scenes are among the highlights. As always gags are very tightly built. Lloyd also handles the dialogue and timing pretty well; but Constance Cummings portrays a dominating, intelligent female lead that is rare in Lloyd's movies. Only complaint: if the high rise sequence in Feet First is recycled from Safety Last, the fighting-in-the-water scene here certainly looks familiar as well-from The Kid Brother. It's also a bit long and excessive.

gelatoflo
Oct 18, 2000
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Trivia
Clyde Bruckman is the credited director, but most of the film was actually directed by Harold Lloyd due to Bruckman's often being incapacitated due to his alcoholism.

Goofs
As Miller is chasing after Harold outside the studio offices, a very clear shadow of the boom microphone can be seen in the grass to the left of the sidewalk.

Quotes
[first lines]
Radio Broadcaster: [voice over] You have been listening to the Voice of Hollywood. That enchanted town. Here is the place where adventure came riding in on the magic rug and spilled its magic on those below. Where else can fame spread her wings so fast? The youth today is a star tomorrow. All is gay!

Alternate versions
1953 re-release version through Monarch Films is edited to 79 minutes. This was the only version shown on television for years. In April 2003 Turner Classic Movies channel premiered the newly restored version, mastered by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from the original film elements. This version is fully restored and runs 98 minutes.