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Harold Lloyd |
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Hal Roach |
Finally Hal Roach and I caught on with the “Wizard of Oz” Company. . . . I played things nobody ever heard of—Gillikens [sic, Gillikins] and Mauchkims [sic, Munchkins] and Kalidahs.
One day Hal and I were sitting on a little bench in the sun made up as Hottentots [sic, Tottenhots]. All we had on was a lot of terrible colored grease paint and some grass skirts. He said to me, “Some day I’m going to make a picture myself. I’m going to make a comedy. People like to laugh and there’s always room for real comedy.” I was terribly impressed, though I couldn’t show it through my makeup. “And when I do, Harold,” he said, “you’ll be in it.”
I was. A couple weeks later he called me up and said that some distant relative of his had died and left him some money. I suspected for a while that he had robbed a bank or something, but I found out eventually that it was on the level. It was only a few hundred dollars, but it was the beginning of things for us.
Thus began the movie careers of two early Hollywood giants.
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