Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor (August 13, 1895, New York – March 6, 1958, Santa Monica) was a film director, screenwriter, and producer, most active in silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford. A notorious cinematic legend over the decades has suggested that Taylor's 1929 adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew had the screen credit "additional dialogue by Sam Taylor." However, no extant prints of the film contain this credit, and there is no substantial documentary evidence that it ever existed.
Director
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The Taming of the Shrew
This "talkie" is the only film co-starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. This print is from the 1966 re-release and it is faithful to the original except that new music and new sound effects were added by Marty Kemp of the Mary Pickford Company during his painstaking...Watch Movie
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Never Weaken
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character dangles an engagement ring outside the window of the girl next door. When her boss, an osteopathic physician, tells her the business is doomed, Lloyd drums up new customers with some well-engineered pratfalls (notable for the use of real locations). A misguided...Watch Movie
Writer
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The Taming of the Shrew
This "talkie" is the only film co-starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. This print is from the 1966 re-release and it is faithful to the original except that new music and new sound effects were added by Marty Kemp of the Mary Pickford Company during his painstaking...Watch Movie
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I Do
Originally in three reels, Harold Lloyd cut a whole reel after previews went poorly. The two-reel result is classic domestic comedy, with Harold as a henpecked hubby babysitting his two young nephews. See a jug of bootleg liquor masquerade as a baby in a carriage; watch Harold try to walk into...Watch Movie
Story
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Among Those Present
Harold Lloyd’s bellhop enjoys posing as a gentleman under cover of clothes dropped off at coat check by the rich clientele. “Gee! If I only had the glad rags. I could act like any of these swells.” He gets his chance when a scoundrel dresses him up as Lord Abernathy to take...Watch Movie
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Grandma's Boy
One of Harold Lloyd’s personal favorites of his films, GRANDMA'S BOY is a beautiful tale of self-discovery with a bounty of comic overtones. Sonny is a self-professed coward who balks at the sight of the town tramp (Dick Sutherland). Armed with a lucky charm given to him by his grandmother (Anna...Watch Movie
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Never Weaken
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character dangles an engagement ring outside the window of the girl next door. When her boss, an osteopathic physician, tells her the business is doomed, Lloyd drums up new customers with some well-engineered pratfalls (notable for the use of real locations). A misguided...Watch Movie
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