Mack sennett autobiography featuring
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Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel
This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of the pioneering film producer and Academy Award winner Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films produced, directed, written by, or featuring Sennett between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett. There are 280 photographs and a huge index.
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Mack Sennett
Canadian-American film producer (1880–1960)
Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American producer, director, actor, and studio head who was known as the "King of Comedy" during his career.[1]
Born in Danville, Quebec,[2][3][4][a] in 1908, he started acting in films in the Biograph Company of New York City, and later opened Keystone Studios in Edendale, California in 1912. Keystone possessed the first fully enclosed film stage, and Sennett became famous as the originator of slapstick routines such as pie-throwing and car-chases, as seen in the Keystone Cops films.[5] He also produced short features that displayed his Bathing Beauties, many of whom went on to develop successful acting careers.[6][7]
After struggling with bankruptcy and the dominance of sound films in the early 1930s, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Aw
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The King and The Little Clown.
Mack Sennett (born 1880 as Michael Sinnott) was the Irish-Canadian producer, who set up The Keystone Studio, in around July 1912. Mack Sennett was also the discoverer of Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Bing Crosby, among many others. He termed himself The King of Comedy, but many have unkindly called him ‘The King of Edendale,’ after the small, downmarket by, in which his lumber-yard of a studio was located. Yes indeed folks, Mack was no Hollywood producer – he, and his backers, could not have afforded a lot in this middle-class area.
Edendale and the future Keystone lot (1906).
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