We all need to smile and one man guaranteed to bring it to us is Harold Lloyd.Charlie Chaplin may have had the market corners on charming tramps but Lloyd had the cute bespectacled dork down pat - a look later replicated by Thomas Dolby.
Often starring with Bebe Daniels Lloyd's physical comedy in films such as Safety Last has been much replicated.
Below is a scene from the 1917 film The Flirt. It's probably how he charmed the ladies to get starlets to pose for cheesecake shots.
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