Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! [Hardcover]

Suzanne Lloyd (Editor), Robert Wagner (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2004

In Hollywood Nudes in 3D! a dazzling array of Hollywood starlets, including Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Dixie Evans, and Tura Satana, come to life in all of their enticing loveliness.

Harold Lloyd, star of such classic silent films as Safety Last and The Freshman, shot more than 300,000 photographs with a stereoscopic (3D) camera. Many of the photos were of young women who dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. Here--for the first time ever in book form--are 200 of Lloyd's most lavish, luscious, and ludicrous pictures of Hollywood nudes posed against some of the most dramatic and creative backgrounds imaginable. Approximately 75 are reproduced in tantalizing 3D, and can be viewed with the aid of the special "Harold Lloyd-style" glasses included with the book.

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About the Author

Suzanne Lloyd is the granddaughter of Harold Lloyd and was raised by him at his magnificent estate, Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California.  She was executive producer of the documentary Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius and author of 3-D Hollywood and Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian.  She lives in Holmby Hills, California.


Robert Wagner has starred in several highly successful television shows including It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart and has appeared in numerous major motion pictures including the Austin Powers trilogy. He lives in California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 154 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Book and Access edition (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579123945
• ISBN-13: 978-1579123949
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 10.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,128,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Use different 3-D glasses, July 22, 2006

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Brian C. Holly "Brian" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! (Hardcover)

Many of the reviews here complain that the anaglyph conversions are misaligned. This is somewhat true of a few pictures. The real problem is that the 3-D glasses provided with the book are just plain terrible and the images suffer considerable 'bleed-through.' Use standard red/cyan 3D glasses and most of the pictures are magnificent.

28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Delusion!, December 3, 2004

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C. Mugnai (Italy) - See all my reviews
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Harold Lloyd was a good 3D photographer and managed the 3D very well, only too well I cannot say the same on whom prepared the photos for the book.
I worked several years using stereo photos, I take stereo photos for hobby and I must say that the 3D photos in the book are bad formed and printed.
Often they are misalligned and the colours of the glasses "lens" don't match with the printed colours.
You may try to use green-red glasses, or perhaps it should be better if the two stereo photos were printed side by side (as in the "3D-Hollywood") and not so badly merged as in this book.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended, December 15, 2004

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Michael Austin (Utica, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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Yes, some of the 3-D effects might have been done better... but this book has some great pictures, 3D and non-3D, very nicely reproduced, with good content by his granddaughter about Harold Lloyd (at one point one of America's most popular and successful silent screen actors). She writes about his lavish estate, and his obsesson with photography of all types (scenic, travel and nudes). I thought it was fascinating. And he was more than a rich actor who snapped a few (thousand) pictures. These are excellent photographs, the models are pretty, shot with care and a sense of story and playfulness. If you are a pin-up fan you will certainly enjoy this book.