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Released
1924 · FILM

Girl Shy

Directed by
Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Written by
Sam Taylor, Ted Wilde
Color
Black & White
Runtime
80 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor who works in a tailor shop and is writing a guidebook titled *The Secret of Making Love* for other bashful young men. He meets Mary, a wealthy woman, and they fall in love. However, Mary is about to marry a man who is already wed, prompting Harold to undertake a daring and reckless effort to stop the wedding.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Allen McneilShot by Walter LundinScored by Don Hulette

Box Office

1924 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.6M

Budget$400K
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mädchenscheude
  • El tenorio tímidoes
  • Ça t'la coupefr
  • Tutte e nessunait

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