In Girl Shy, Harold Meadows (Harold Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop. He’s writing a guide book for other bashful young men, ‘The Secret of Making Love.’ Some chapters are portrayed as fantasy sequences. Fate has him meet a rich girl, Mary (Jobyna 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.
Girl Shy (1924) starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
Girl Shy (1924), where Harold is a small-time tailor’s apprentice who can’t speak to women. But nevertheless has penned a how-to book entitled “The Secret of Making Love.” And on a train, he manages to make the acquaintance of the lovely Jobyna Ralston, and help her out. Can love bloom from this?
Cast of characters
- Harold Lloyd (A Sailor-Made Man) … The Poor Boy – Harold Meadows
- Jobyna Ralston (Hot Water) … The Rich Girl – Mary Buckingham
- Richard Daniels (Dr. Jack) … The Poor Man
- Carlton Griffin … The Rich Man
Additional cast
- Ethel Broadhurst … Publisher Woman (uncredited)
- Sammy Brooks (Ring Up the Curtain) … Short Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Billy Butts … Little Boy (uncredited)
- Joe Cobb … Boy in Tailor Shop (uncredited)
- Jackie Condon (Dr. Jack) … Boy Having Pants Sewn (uncredited)
- Mickey Daniels (Alone & Together) … Newsboy (uncredited)
- Andy De Villa (Hot Water) … Traffic Cop (uncredited)
- Dorothy Dorr Dorothy Dorr … Girl With the Curls (uncredited)
- F.F. Guenste (Three Ages) … Butler (uncredited)
- Betsy Ann Hisle … Little Girl (uncredited)
- Wally Howe (Get Out and Get Under) … First Bootlegger (uncredited)
- Judy King … Flapper (uncredited)
- Priscilla King … Girl (uncredited)
- Gus Leonard (Bliss) … Bearded Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Nola Luxford … Vamp (uncredited)
- Earl Mohan … Sleeping Trolley Rider (uncredited)
- William Orlamond … Publisher Roger Thornsby’s Assistant (uncredited)
- Julian Rivero … Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Hayes E. Robertson (The Battle of the Century) … Shabby Car Owner (uncredited)
- Charles Stevenson (Grandma’s Boy) … Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Walter Wilkinson … Little Boy (uncredited)