Both Harold Lloyd and his producer, Hal Roach, agreed that his Lonesome Luke character, whom the comedian had been playing for nearly two years, needed a bit of a makeover. Roach suggested the change required something to disguise himself since he was too handsome to do comedy. After careful deliberation, Lloyd chose a distinguishing trademark feature that would identify himself for the remainder of his long career: black horn-rimmed glasses. With those specs (without the glass lens), Lloyd's new character reflected a more mature, normal, quiet, clean and sympathetic boy. His first movie with these glasses appeared in the September 1917 film "Over The Fence."
"He was a kid that you would meet next door, across the street, but at the same time I could still do all the crazy things that we did before, but you believed them," said Lloyd in an interview years after. "They were natural and the romance could be believable."
Lloyd's new character wouldn't be pigeonholed in one particular social and economic class. He was the striving young man always seeking recognition. And he was always looking for romance. In his first "Glass" movie, Harold stumbles upon a pair of baseball tickets and asks Bebe Daniels to go to the game with him. However, an arch rival, Snub Pollard, pickpockets his tickets, who eventually has Bebe go with him. A determined Harold seeks a way into the stadium, only to be mixed up as a new pitcher, sparking an unusual set of events.
"He was a kid that you would meet next door, across the street, but at the same time I could still do all the crazy things that we did before, but you believed them," said Lloyd in an interview years after. "They were natural and the romance could be believable."
Lloyd's new character wouldn't be pigeonholed in one particular social and economic class. He was the striving young man always seeking recognition. And he was always looking for romance. In his first "Glass" movie, Harold stumbles upon a pair of baseball tickets and asks Bebe Daniels to go to the game with him. However, an arch rival, Snub Pollard, pickpockets his tickets, who eventually has Bebe go with him. A determined Harold seeks a way into the stadium, only to be mixed up as a new pitcher, sparking an unusual set of events.