Look Pleasant, Please
About Look Pleasant, Please
Women come to a photo studio where the photographer cannot keep his hands off the sitters. Bebe Daniels slaps away an advance and telephones her husband, who says he will come and kill the man. Harold Lloyd is put in the photographer's place and tries to shoot an old woman, three drunks, and a chorus girl. The husband arrives, a fight breaks out, and the police take the husband away. Harold and Bebe end up in a picture together.
Cast & crew
More about Look Pleasant, Please
Alfred J. Goulding directed the one-reel Hal Roach comedy, production L-19, for Pathé Exchange. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Walter Lundin photographed it. It was shot December 3–8, 1917, copyrighted on March 4 and March 22, 1918, and released March 10, 1918. Pathé reissued it on December 11, 1921. Snub Pollard plays Snub. William Gillespie is credited as the photographer on the Lloyd studio log.
Themes
Look
Walter Lundin shot the studio interiors. Exteriors used the Nelson Evans Studio at 6039 Hollywood Boulevard.
Preservation
A print is at the Museum of Modern Art.
Notes
- The Museum of Modern Art holds a print.
- City and state censorship boards cut the short, as they did with many American comedies of the year.
Scenes
- Bebe telephones her husband after the photographer gets too familiar.
- Lloyd, filling in, faces the husband who came to murder the real photographer.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Look Pleasant, Please (1918).webm)
