
"The Frisky Mrs. Johnson" is a 1920 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke.


There is a peculiar ache that arrives only when you fall in love with a ghost. The Frisky Mrs. Johnson is such a ghost—four reels of nitrate laughter that once caught the light in 1920 and now survives only in the smoky after-image of lobby cards and breathless Motion Picture Herald adjectives. Yet the ache is delici...

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" There is a peculiar ache that arrives only when you fall in love with a ghost. The Frisky Mrs. Johnson is such a ghost—four reels of nitrate laughter that once caught the light in 1920 and now survives only in the smoky after-image of lobby cards and breathless Motion Picture Herald adjectives. Yet the ache is delicious, because what we do know feels like a champagne cork popped inside a velvet satchel: irreverent, effervescent, hopelessly muffled by time. Let us begin with the poster: Billie..."
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