One of the iconic faces of the silent film era is that of Harold Lloyd, with his round glasses and straw boater, the everyman who goes to great lengths – and heights – to get the girl.
On May 20th at UCLA’s Royce Hall, silent film lovers will be regaled by two of Lloyd’s seldom-seen masterpieces, The Kid Brother (1927) and High and Dizzy (1920). The films are accompanied by the LA Chamber Orchestra with Carl Davis conducting his own compositions created specifically for the Lloyd films.
Music for The Kid Brother was commissioned by Thames Television for Channel 4 and the newly composed music for High and Dizzy will have its U.S. premiere on that evening.
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The Kid Brother:
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Carl Davis, composer and conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has written music for more than 100 television programs, but is best known for creating music to accompany silent films. In 1980, he started to create scores for silent films beginning with Napoleon and continuing with a series of silent film classics commissioned by Channel Four. In 1981, he collaborated with Barry Humphries on his Last Night of the Poms, revived in 2009. In 1991, Davis collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his Liverpool Oratorio commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Suzanne Lloyd, granddaughter of Harold Lloyd. When the film icon died in 1971, 19 year- old Suzanne became one of three trustees to his film library. In the 1990’s, Suzanne petitioned the court and became the sole trustee of her grandfather’s legacy. In 2001, the entire library, 85 surviving titles, came under her control. She created Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc. to license the films as her grandfather would have wished.