Bliss (1917 film)

Bliss
Bliss
Directed by	Alfred J. Goulding
Produced by	Hal Roach
Starring	Harold Lloyd
Cinematography	Walter Lundin
Edited by	Della Mullady
Music by	Borodin and Bach
Release date	October 14, 1917;
Country	United States
Language	Silent with English intertitles

Bliss is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.^[1] The film was thought lost until a copy was discovered in the Dawson Film Find in 1978.^[2]

Plot[edit]

Harold and Bebe meet each other by chance while out walking. Equally smitten, they exchange calling cards. Harold is a man of modest means while the well-to-do Bebe is "the most eligible girl in town." Bebe is besieged by wealthy suitors but none of them measure up to her father's standards; he insists his future son-in-law be of noble blood. Harold rents evening clothes from his laundry man before heading off to Bebe's house to woo her. When he arrives, Bebe's father assumes Harold is another unsuitable beau and attempts to violently eject him from the house. Bebe intervenes. Harold happens to find a calling card in his suit pocket bearing the name "Count Rusva" on it, which convinces Bebe's father that Harold is prime husband material for his daughter. Wanting his daughter to marry Harold quickly, Bebe's father tricks the two of them into thinking each wants to elope. They quickly head to the nearest pastor and are wed.