John Bunny was America's first comedy star, and the first in that long line of beloved comedy fat men, a lineage that would include Rosco "Fatty" Arbuckle, Oliver Hardy, Jackie Gleason, John Belushi, John Candy and Chris Farley, among many others. Often paired with the thin-as-a-rail Flora Finch, the couple formed a sort of Sprat family in reverse and ruled the comic cinema […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:47AM on September 21, 2013