Series: Harold Lloyd Director: Hal Roach Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Walter Lundin Editor: Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 29 June 1919 Length: 1 reel Production No.: L-82 Filming dates: March 29 - April 7, 1919 Rating: -/10

Spring Fever

Snub Pollard is an unwanted suitor who turns up at Bebe Daniels' house and leads her away despite her reluctance, but with the blessing of her mother. Meanwhile at the office, Harold Lloyd is moping around with his mind on other things. Through the window Harold sees a couple on a lake rowing a canoe, which brings a joyful feeling to his day. Taking a deep breath from the spring air in his lungs, Harold's distraction causes him rip up the payroll sheets handed to him by a work colleague. After being shouted at by the other workers, Harold slips out of the office and heads for the nearby park. After cavorting with a walking couple, he comes to the temporary aide of a pint-sized man sitting on a bench who is being harrassed by a much larger man. After kicking the fat man off the bench and disposing of the smaller man head-first into a trash bin, Harold continues to cause trouble with a courting couple seated on another bench. Snub and the girl are also at the park, but she ditches him the first opportunity she gets, whilst Harold torments another courting couple on a bench.

It doesn't take long before all the offended parties join forces in their annoyance at Harold. He has ducked into a bush to take cover from the angry crowd, where he meets Snub's girl hiding. Together they form an alliance to ditch the mob (and Snub) and emerge from the bushes to tell the crowd that the man they are seeking is lurking nearby, as they finger poor old Snub. The couple head off to a café where a group of young ladies quickly take advantage of Harold's generosity by ordering everything on the menu. Harold poses as a waiter to fleece an unsuspecting customer of his check money in order to pay his own bill. Snub, meanwhile, has made his way to the same restaurant and makes his entrance via a misguided fist from Noah Young outside. In fact, Snub's blow to the head is so substantial it leaves him virtually paralyzed. Once again, Harold exploits the situation by manipulating him into paying for the bill. The four ladies who have all eaten at the table get up and leave without so much as a "thank you". Harold and the girl leave the restaurant and head for her house, where his boss arrives to tell Harold that he holds no blame for him running away and leaving the office. The boss walks off with the mother as Harold kisses the girl.

Favourite bit The sequence in the park where Harold Lloyd firstly kicks the fat man backwards off the bench, then dumps the small man upside down in a trash bin.

Trivia • Copyrighted May 10, 1919. • Reissued July 16, 1922. • The first person seen in the film is Bebe Daniels. • The film takes place on Monday June 2nd, 1919 - as seen in the office calendar Harold Lloyd has. • The restaurant Harold takes the girl to is "The Busy Bee". • Bebe Daniels looks straight into the camera several times during the course of the film. • This was Mark Jones and Bob O'Conor's first known film for Hal Roach. • At least one source lists Wallace Howe, Bud Jamison, George K. Arthur and Ray Brooks as being in the film. My opinion • Not a lot!

	Harold Lloyd The boy
	Bebe Daniels The girl
	Snub Pollard The unwelcome suitor
	Gus Leonard The boss
	Noah Young Office worker
	Sammy Brooks Short man in park
	Charles Stevenson The Busy Bee counter man
	Fred C. Newmeyer Office colleague/ Old man with cane
	Raye Hampton Girl's mother
	Bob O'Conor Man on bench
	Bobbie West Girlfriend on bench
	Mark Jones Man on bench
	Dee Lampton Fat man on bench
	Marie Mosquini Busy Bee waitress/ Old lady in park
	Estelle Harrison Mark Jones's girl
	Oscar Larson Bum who puts on cape
	Marie Benson [?]
	Kittoria Beveridge [?]
	Lige Conley [?]
	E.J. Ritter [?]
	Chase Thorne [?]
	Joe Mattice [?]
	Nye Williams Busy Bee customer
	Mildred Forbes [?]
	Grace Madden [?]
	Grace DeSantis [?]
	Ruth DeSantis [?]

Acknowledgements: The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd (book) Ben Model (identification of Charles Stevenson) Steve Massa (identification of Fred Newmeyer) Jesse Brisson (help and information; identification of Fred Newmeyer, Marie Mosquini, Bobbie West, Nye Williams) This page was last updated on: 04 December 2023