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John Bunny (September 21, 1863 – April 26, 1915) was an American actor and was one of the first comic stars of the motion picture era. Between 1910 and his death in 1915 Bunny was one of the top stars of early silent film, as well as an early example of celebrity. At one time he was billed as “the man who makes more than the president”. His face was insured for $100,000 and his unexpected death made headlines around the world. Though quickly forgotten, Bunny paved the way for future plump comedians such as Fatty Arbuckle and Jackie Gleason.
Born in New York City, Bunny was raised in Brooklyn where he attended high school and worked as a grocery clerk before joining a small minstrel show touring the East Coast. He went on to jobs as stage manager for various stock companies and performed in vaudeville before being drawn to the fledgling motion picture business. By 1910, Bunny was working at Vitagraph Studios where the happy-go-lucky, rotund man quickly became an international star of silent film comedies. At Vitagraph he starred in a series of over one hundred popular comedies with the comedian Flora Finch that were popularly called "Bunnyfinches".
John Anthony Frusciante i/fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ/; born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released ten albums under his own name, as well as two with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally as Ataxia. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and electronica. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques.
Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at eighteen years old, first appearing on the band's 1989 album, Mother's Milk. The group's follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was a breakthrough success. However, he was overwhelmed by the band's new popularity and quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a long period of drug addiction, during which he released his first solo recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and then Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the album Californication (1999). His album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made in 2001. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album explored different recording techniques and genres. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean and again parted ways with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. As of 2011, Frusciante is currently working on his eleventh solo album. Frusciante has produced and/or recorded with the Wu-Tang Clan, The Mars Volta, George Clinton and others. His most recent solo releases will be a 5 song EP entitled Letur-Lefr, due out in July 2012, and a full length album entitled PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, due out in late 2012.
Actors: John Bunny (actor), William Shea (actor), Mrs. Sidney Drew (actress), Flora Finch (actress), George D. Baker (director), Cortland Van Deusen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: John Bunny (actor), William Humphrey (actor), Paul Kelly (actor), Flora Finch (actress), James Oliver Curwood (writer), George D. Baker (director), George D. Baker (writer), Phyllis Grey (actress), Emily Hayes (actress),
Plot: When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young girls. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is at the same hotel, planning a little "playing around" of her own.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: John Bunny (actor), Charles Eldridge (actor), Flora Finch (actress), Wilfrid North (director), Beta Breuil (writer), Tom Sutton (actor),
Plot: After having done a little newspaper work on the side, John Bunny applies to the editor of a provincial paper for a regular position on his staff. The editor, as a try-out, gives him a somewhat difficult assignment. Bunny is told to "cover" the secret suffrage meeting. Figuring that it would be impossible for a man to get in, Bunny disguises himself as a woman and arrives at the hall, announces that he brings greetings from a distant organization. He is enthusiastically received, being embraced by almost everyone present. After the principal has finished her oration, the visitor is called on to speak. Bunny rises and his remarks are greeted with cheers. All goes well until he notices the doorkeeper turning the key. Thinking he is trapped, Bunny in his fright drops his hand bag. His manner of picking it up discloses his sex and immediately the meeting is in an uproar. The door being locked, the reporter is unable to escape that way, but after considerable difficulty, he manages to get out of the window. An exciting chase follows across the lots, Bunny shedding various garments on the way. He eludes his pursuers by climbing a tree, hot after a time they locate him and none of the women has the courage to climb after him. Their leader, however, is seized by a brilliant idea. Rushing to a nearby house she gets an axe and with the help of the others, hews down the tree. Bunny's pleas for mercy are of no avail. At the point of a hatpin he is obliged to confess his penitence and make a vow of silence. He is retained as a prisoner of war, and still wearing his borrowed plumage, forms a highly decorative exhibit on a float in the triumphant militant suffragettes' parade.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Hughie Mack (actor), Charles Eldridge (actor), Wilfrid North (director), John Bunny (actor), Rose Tapley (actress), Marguerite Bertsch (writer), James Lackaye (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: John Bunny (actor), Wally Van (actor), Flora Finch (actress), Lillian Walker (actress), Wilfrid North (director),
Plot: John Bunny gets into an awful stew when he hears from his Aunt Eliza that she is coming to visit him and that she is bringing along her cousin, Jean, whom she wishes him to marry. He doesn't at all like the idea of abandoning his bachelor life and appeals to his friend, Jack Holmes, for aid. Jack is persuaded to masquerade as Bunny, whom his aunt has never seen, while Bunny himself gets into feminine garb and poses as the cook. As soon as he sees Jean, Bunny wishes to disclose his identity but cannot very well see his way clear to doing it. He is racked by all the fires of jealousy whenever be sees Jack flirting with her, which happens frequently. Having himself very much fallen in love with the lady, be decides to tell her of the little deception, and writes a letter to her, pushing it under the door of her room. In the letter he asks her to meet him in the arbor at the foot of the garden early nest morning. Aunt Eliza hears Joan as she passes down the stairs, and rushing out upon her, catches her and brings her into the room. Then she sees the letter in the girl's hand and grabs it. Aunty declares that Joan shall not keep the appointment in the garden, but that she will go in her place. This she does, her face covered with a heavy veil so that it cannot be seen. Bunny is delighted when he sees the lady coming down the path towards the arbor, and soon begins to flirt with her. He gets the surprise of his life, however, when he raises her veil to kiss her, and finds that he has been making love to his aunt instead of to his pretty second-cousin. Still more agony is piled upon him when he finds that Jean and Jack have been hidden behind the bushes, watching the whole of the proceedings. The sight of Bunny's crest-fallen face makes even the stern visage of Aunt Eliza relax a little, and she allows the triumphant Jack to bear off Jean, who goes as a willing captive. Bunny, after meditating on his sins for a while, makes up his mind that it is ail right after all. No wedding bells for him.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: John Bunny (actor), Wally Van (actor), Niles Welch (actor), Flora Finch (actress), Wilfrid North (director),
Plot: Jim Wilson gets sore when, on the first of April, John Bunny, the bridge watchman, makes a fool of him. Bunny gets his silk hat and rubs it the wrong way when Wilson is not looking and then laughs at him. Wilson makes up his mind to pay him back. He goes home to his mother and makes arrangements with her for what he considers will be a gigantic joke. They get a pillow and tie it up with twine, so that it looks like a baby, and put on it an automobile coat and hat. Then, taking the chauffeur into their confidence, they drive down to the bridge and throw the supposed baby into the river as they pass the horrified Bunny, who at once gives the alarm to the watchman at the other end of the bridge to stop the auto. Wilson gets past the bridge all right, but the hue and cry has started and they are followed by a mounted policeman and an auto-cyclist. They are caught and taken straight to the police court, which is in session. Some fishermen under the bridge see the splash and try to get the baby out of the water, a difficult proceeding as it sinks at once to the bottom. After dragging the river for some time one of the men gets it out of the water and finds out that the supposed baby is only a pillow. He gets mad and starts to fight with John Bunny, who had told him to fish for the infant. Both of the men are arrested and taken to court, where they meet Wilson and his mother, who have just been brought in. The four are taken in straightway to the magistrate and the case is tried at once. Even the majesty of the law has to laugh at the episode and decides to have a hand in it. His honor tells them that they are all fined five hundred dollars and sentenced to six months in jail. At the sight of their rueful faces he laughs and pointing to the calendar remarks, "April Fool's Day, the case is dismissed."
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: John Bunny (actor), William Shea (actor), Flora Finch (actress), Kate Price (actress), Lillian Walker (actress), Laurence Trimble (director),
Genres: Comedy, Short,