Harold Lloyd in GIRL SHY Screens at The Des Peres Theater February 9th – Presented by ‘Silents, Please STL’

“The story of a bashful boy who lived in a world of ideas and ideals. He was so afraid of girls that he made a secret study of them and the more he studied them the more he feared them.”

Harold Lloyd in GIRL SHY (1924) screens at The Des Peres Theater (12701 Manchester Rd, Des Peres, MO 63131) Wednesday February 9th at 7pm. – They are presented by Silents, Please STL, a local group that aims to promote and preserve the art of silent filmmaking from the early 20th Century through community programming and education. Admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased in advance HERE. (which supports this screening and helps to sustain ongoing programming). Silents, Please STL‘s Facebook page can be found HERE

In GIRL SHY, Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for other bashful young men, “The Secret of Making Love,” chapters from which are portrayed as fantasy sequences. Fate has him meet rich girl, Mary (Ralston), and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.