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Comedy

Bonnie Bonnie Lassie

Year
1919
Director
Tod Browning
Length
Not established

A silent American comedy directed by Tod Browning, included in the Library of Congress’s lost-film list dated 4 February 2021.

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Historical context and source evidence.

Cream and raspberry letters of Bonnie Bonnie Lassie dance across a mint ground with lace-paper curves.

Image: Monocurator · source · Original Monocurator artwork

What survives

The film expands our picture of Browning before his reputation narrowed around the macabre, showing that his career also moved through lighter star material.

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Approach this as a lost-film record. Contemporary documentation can place the work within a career, but it cannot support detailed claims about tone, timing, or performance. The Library of Congress includes Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie in its lost-film list dated 4 February 2021. This page discusses the record of the film; the dated listing does not establish whether material has since surfaced.

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A quick, non-exhaustive note The film is considered lost; the page cannot substitute documentation for a surviving presentation.
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A missing comedy leaves an especially sharp absence because timing cannot be reconstructed from a synopsis. I would rather preserve that silence than pretend we heard the laugh.

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