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By removing this sequence from "Why Worry?" Harold Lloyd added $30,000 to the cost of the film — a result of mistaken judgment.
Yes Men Need Not Apply
Harold Lloyd says that he has neither desire nor room for an employee who will not voice an opinion and on occasion, differ with him. And therein he is different — oh, very!
By A. L. Wooldridge
A SMALL boy came home from school one day in tears. Something had happened, and the discerning eye of his daddy promptly noted it. "Well, Bobby," he said, "you got a larrupin' in school, did you ?"
"Yes, father." "What did you do?"
"Well, you know, d-daddy," the boy blubbered, "when I was gettin' my lessons last night, I asked you how much a million dollars was. And you told me it was 'a hell of a lot of money.' That ain't the answer!"
That story recurred to me recently while I sat talking to Harold Lloyd at the studio. Harold had just remarked, "If I had a yes man on my staff I'd fire him.
When I go to any one in my employ, and say, 'Don't you think it would be better to make that scene the other way ?' I expect him to bark, T should say not !' if he doesn't agree with me. Then I want him to tell why he doesn't agree with me. I want constructive answers. No one ever has or ever will be discharged from my service for having opinions. Great guns, that's what I hire men for !"
Harold Lloyd is about the only producer in Hollywood who isn't surrounded — yes, absolutely walled in — by yes men. There may be one or two others, but not many. The majority keep only those men who agree with their every suggestion, adopt unhesitatingly their every plan, and rise on their hind legs occasionally to tell them how wonderful they are. But not Harold Lloyd !
"I used to have a fellow — God bless him, I don't know where he is now — who used to come rushing in with a dozen suggestions at a time," Mr. Lloyd said. "Usually they were rotten. But once in a while he devised something which gave him almost the mark of a genius. Whenever I did accept one of his suggestions, he went strutting away with his chest swelled out, looking like the happiest fellow in the world. He worked for me ! I hated to lose him.
"Do you remember that scene in 'Grandma's Boy'
Repeated previews decide what is to come out of a film. This scene was deleted from "The Freshman."