Harold Lloyd was the ‘third genius’ of silent cinema, a happy-go-lucky, bespectacled innocent audiences loved to love. Then critical authority caught up with him and that was that: he was written out of the script of history. Yet all of a sudden, says Aaron Hicklin, Lloyd is enjoying a renaissance in the States. And Hollywood is even remaking his most famous movie… — Suzanne Lloyd is on the phone. She is telling me to try Jude Law, to try Johnny Depp. “Johnny based his glasses on Harold,” she says. Her tone is warm, familiar. She thinks she can get hold of Robert Wagner for me, and maybe Debbie Reynolds. And have I tried…
