Long before Harold Lloyd became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, he was a teenager in San Diego selling candy at theaters, working backstage and learning the craft that would eventually make him a silent-film legend.
More than a century later, the Coronado Island Film Festival will revisit those early years with “HAROLD!,” a Nov. 8 presentation featuring Lloyd’s granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd, film critic Leonard Maltin and a restored screening of his 1925 comedy, “The Freshman.”
Festival historian Tim Reid will share historical photographs and research tracing Lloyd’s journey from San Diego stages to Hollywood, including places where he lived, worked and performed…