John Bunny — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

John Bunny, while not responsible for the “bunny hug,” was the originator of the “Bunny smile,” the “Bunny laugh” and the numberless funny-Bunny poses and postures, each little trick of which gets a laugh all its own.

Mirth and Bunny go hand in hand and behind them trails the motion-picture public, quite content that the big laughs of life should come to them through their fat Bunny friend. They are interested, very; but that same fat friend is almost more interested, for his big object in life is to keep people laughing, once he gets them started, and to this end and aim he does all things and does them well.

His work, to him, is serious work; for each Bunny smile there must be a reason and there must be good team work to make all the reasons apparent. That is why Bunny likes to play with Flora Finch, she works in harmony with him and, besides, Vitagraph fans like the Bunny-Finch combination.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, April 1913