Editing Harold Lloyd (section)

==Personal life==
{{Main|Harold Lloyd Estate}}
Lloyd married leading lady [[Mildred Davis]] on February 10, 1923, in Los Angeles.<ref>Los Angeles, California, County Marriages 1850-1952</ref> They had two children together: Gloria Lloyd (1924–2012)<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gloria Lloyd, daughter of Harold Lloyd, dies |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/gloria-lloyd-daughter-of-harold-lloyd-dies-1118050115/ |work=Variety |date=February 11, 2012 |access-date=February 11, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Kevin|last=Brownlow|title=Obituaries: Gloria Lloyd: Actress who had a gilded life as Harold Lloyd's daughter|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gloria-lloyd-actress-who-had-a-gilded-life-as-harold-lloyds-daughter-7441082.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gloria-lloyd-actress-who-had-a-gilded-life-as-harold-lloyds-daughter-7441082.html |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|date= February 27, 2012|access-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref> and [[Harold Lloyd Jr.|Harold Clayton Lloyd Jr.]] (1931–1971).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Harold Lloyd Jr. Dies. Actor, Son of Comedy Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/10/archives/harold-lloyd-ir-dies-actor-son-of-comedy-star.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 10, 1971 |access-date=June 8, 2008 }}</ref> They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in September 1930, whom they renamed Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd<ref name="The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia">{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=Annette D'Agostino |last2=D'Agostino |first2=Annette M. |title=The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia |date=2004 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-1514-4 |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smlZAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> but was known as Peggy for most of her life.<ref name="The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia"/> Lloyd discouraged Davis from continuing her acting career. He later relented, but by that time her career momentum was lost. On August 18, 1969, Davis died in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, from a heart attack two years before Lloyd's death.<ref name="fb">{{cite news |title=Ex-Actress Mildred Davis, Harold Lloyd's Wife, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91503616/mildred-davis/ |access-date=December 31, 2021 |work=The Fresno Bee |agency=Associated Press |date=August 19, 1969 |page=5}}</ref> Though her real age was a guarded secret, a family spokesperson at the time indicated she was 66 years old. Other sources claim she was 68 years old at the time of her death.<ref group="note">The reference book ''Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory'' gives Davis's birth date as January 1, 1900.</ref><ref name="clac">{{cite book |last1=Ellenberger |first1=Allan R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Mildred+Davis%22&pg=PA45 |title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory |date=2001 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786409839 |language=en |access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> Their son, Harold Clayton Lloyd Jr., who was also an actor, died from complications of a stroke three months after his father.<ref>{{cite news |title=Harold Lloyd Jr. Dies; Actor, Son of Comedy Star (Published 1971) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/10/archives/harold-lloyd-ir-dies-actor-son-of-comedy-star.html |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 June 1971}} {{link note|note=NYT Paid Archive}}</ref>

[[Image:The Lloyds - Modern Screen, May 1936.jpg|thumb|left|The Lloyds in 1936 (''left to right''): Peggy, Harold Jr., Harold, Gloria, and Mildred]]
In 1925, at the height of his movie career, Lloyd became a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] at the Alexander Hamilton Lodge No. 535 of Hollywood,<ref>{{cite book |title=One Hundred Years of Freemasonry in California |date=1950 |location=San Francisco |page=1857 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ckz11VZTK1gC|volume=4|author=Freemasons California. Grand Lodge}}</ref> advancing quickly through both the [[York Rite]] and [[Scottish Rite]], and then joined Al Malaikah Shrine in Los Angeles. He took the degrees of the [[Royal Arch Masonry|Royal Arch]] with his father. In 1926, he became a 32° Scottish Rite Mason in the Valley of Los Angeles, California. He was vested with the Rank and Decoration of Knight Commander Court of Honor (KCCH) and eventually with the Inspector General Honorary, 33rd degree.

Lloyd's Beverly Hills home, [[Harold Lloyd Estate|Greenacres]],<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Hollywood's Finest Estate Belongs to Harold Lloyd |magazine=Life |date=1 August 1938 |publisher=Time Inc |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lk8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 |language=en}}</ref> was built in 1926–1929, with 44 rooms,<ref>{{cite book |last1=DiMare |first1=Philip C. |title=Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia |date=17 June 2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-297-5 |page=724 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0qUJ-JuSPdQC&pg=PA724 |language=en|volume=1}}</ref> 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and a nine-hole golf course. A portion of Lloyd's personal inventory of his silent films (then estimated to be worth $2&nbsp;million) was destroyed in August 1943 when his film vault caught fire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vance |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Lloyd |first2=Suzanne |title=Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian |date=2002 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-1674-6 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWpZAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> Seven firemen were overcome while inhaling chlorine gas from the blaze. Lloyd was saved by his wife, who dragged him to safety outdoors after he collapsed at the door of the film vault. The fire spared the main house and out-buildings. After attempting to maintain the home as a museum of film history, as Lloyd had wished, the Lloyd family sold it to a developer in 1975.<ref>{{cite news|first=Lynn|last=Simross|title=Lloyd Property Sold to Iranian for $1.6 Million|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=31 July 197}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Myrna|last=Oliver|title=Harold Lloyd's Heirs Lose Fight on Estate Funds|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=30 April 1976}}</ref>
 
The grounds were subdivided<ref>{{cite news|first=Ruth|last=Ryon|title=Hot Property: Harold Lloyd's Mansion on Market?|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=1 September 1985}}</ref> but the main house and the estate's principal gardens remain and are frequently used for civic fundraising events and as a filming location, appearing in films like ''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]'' and ''[[The Loved One (film)|The Loved One]]''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Lloyd was a Republican who campaigned for [[Thomas E. Dewey]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=1944-09-23 |title=Dewey Coliseum Address Cheered |pages=1 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> and [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blanchard |first=Robert |date=1956-10-19 |title=Eisenhower Speaks Here Twice Today |pages=1 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> He was also a founding member of the Hollywood Committee for Senator [[Joseph McCarthy|Joseph R. McCarthy]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sokolsky |first=George |date=1952-08-26 |title=Any Patriotic American Should Be Proud To Associate Himself With 'McCarthyism' |pages=9 |work=[[Rapid City Journal]]}}</ref>