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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mack Sennett
		Sennett's slapstick comedies were noted for their wild car chases and custard pie warfare.
		Mack Sennett (1880-1960), American motion-picture producer and director, who made a significant contribution to silent films in the United States with the frenetic slapstick comedy that he introduced and perfected.
		Sennett was the film industry's first real producer, a versatile entrepreneur who recognized and encouraged talent and who created a systematic approach to production that yielded a large quantity of films.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mack-Sennett (2846 words)

	Mack Sennett and Company, A Silver Lake Legacy
		The last film produced at this location by Mack Sennett was in 1928, and in 1982, it received Historic Landmark status, thanks to a group effort by the Hollywood Heritage, the LA Conservancy, preservationists, and film history buffs.
		Mack Sennett began his film career in New York when he answered an ad in the paper, "$5.00 a day to work in the movies." He was an actor with an amazing intuitive sense for the comic.
		Sennett, with the assistance of Mabel Normand Henry Lehrman and Ford Sterling, who came from New York with him, and Fred Mace, former director of Imp Comedies, is already at work at the Edendale plant making comedies for future release.
	www.silverlake.org /about_silverlake/Sennett_studios.htm (1322 words)

	Mack Sennett
		Mack Sennett was the outstanding pioneer and primitive of American silent comedy.
		Sennett and Griffith were colleagues and contemporaries, and Sennett served as actor, writer, and assistant under Griffith in 1908 and 1909.
		Mack Sennett was an actor, writer, director, producer, deal-maker and star-maker often considered to be a full-blown studio at the pinnacle of his career.
	www.lycos.com /info/mack-sennett.html (522 words)

	Mack Sennett - MSN Encarta
		The most memorable of Sennett's features, however, had been made earlier: Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), which starred Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and the young Charlie Chaplin, who was discovered by Sennett in 1913.
		By 1923, when Sennett ceased to work independently and began the first of a series of associations with other organizations, his best films were behind him.
		In 1937 Sennett was honored with a special Academy Award “for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen.” His autobiography, King of Comedy, was published in 1954.
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	Mack Sennett - Biography - Moviefone
		Leaving Biograph in 1912, Sennett set up his own studio, with principal financing from ex-bookies Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman; Sennett later claimed that he owed Kessel and Bauman money, and convinced them it would be to their advantage to invest in movies rather than beat him up for a bad debt.
		Sennett's new Keystone studio was constructed in Edendale, California, where he began grinding out one-reel comedies starring Sterling, Mace, and Normand, with whom the producer had fallen in love.
		During his last decade, Sennett wrote his highly suspect autobiography, was feted at the Cannes Film Festival, was toasted by the TV series This is Your Life, and was frequently called upon by interviewers for his opinions on the new crop of comedians and the bikinied Bathing Beauties of the era.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/mack-sennett/110811/biography (1122 words)

	Mack Sennett - Encyclopedia.com
		Mack Sennett, 1884-1960, American movie director and producer, b.
		Sennett's films, rarely more than one or two reels long, were slapstick comedies noted for their fantastic chases and custard pie warfare.
		Normand and her longtime director, Mack Sennett, as the basis for his musical, Mack and Mabel, but never made the...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Sennett.html (928 words)

	Mack Sennett - Northern Stars
		Often called "The King of Comedy" Mack Sennett was born Mikall Sinnott in the Eastern Townships south of Montréal, Québec.
		Sennett was not just a gambler, he also got caught up in land speculation and once tried to develop a large tract of land in Hollywood.
		Sennett enjoyed a brief spell of fame and popularity but it was now very late in his life.
	www.northernstars.ca /actorsstu/sennettbio.html (1055 words)

	Mack Sennett Summary
		Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on Jan. 17, 1884, in Quebec, Canada.
		In a Sennett comedy it was not unusual for a bandit to rob a bank with a vacuum cleaner or for a flood to carry a man out of his house in a bathtub.
		Sennett's comedies, when they are at their best, are a combination of impudent satire, vulgar burlesque, and exhilarated madness.
	www.bookrags.com /Mack_Sennett (2517 words)

	Mack Sennett: Comedies
		Mack Sennett started as a devoted student and employee of D.W. Griffith, only to outgrow his short pants, but not before he made his mark with the master.
		Sennett was the comedy mask to Griffith's mask of tragedy.
		Sennett stumbled into directing by accident: when a director fell ill at the last minute, he was told to replace him.
	www.lycos.com /info/mack-sennett--comedies.html (595 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mack Sennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Richmond, Quebec, Canada, Sennett was a son of Irish immigrants.
		Sennett was a singer, dancer, clown, actor, set designer and director for Biograph, and founded Keystone in 1912 together with Adam Kessel.
		Roach signed up with MGM, leaving Sennett now by himself at Pathe, but they were now on hard times because the hundreds of exhibitors that used to take their shorts had switched to the new MGM or Paramount subjects.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mack_Sennett (673 words)

	SENNETT, Mack
		He created the beautiful Mack Sennett Girls and the group of comic policemen known as the Keystone Kops.
		Sennett directed most of the famous silent-film comedians, including Fatty Arbuckle (1887–1933), W. Fields, and Buster Keaton.
		Canadian-born director Mack Sennett, the creator of the Keystone Kops, is regarded as the father of American slapstick comedy.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..se081500.a (297 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Mack Sennett (1880-1960) was born Michael Sinnott in Danville, Canada.
		Sennett became an active member of the Academy in 1929.
		In March 1938 Mack Sennett was presented with a Special Academy Award "for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen." Sennett is best remembered as the man behind the Keystone Kops, the custard pie, and the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/sennett_163.html (887 words)

	Mack Sennett - Definition, explanation
		Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film.
		Sennett became a singer, dancer, clown, actor, set designer and director for Biograph, and founded Keystone Studios in 1912 together with Adam Kessel.
		Less than successful films such as "Hypnotized" with flface comedians Mack and Moran were done in the early 1930s near the end of his career when he sold his backlog of films to Warner Brothers.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/ma/mack_sennett.php (638 words)

	Mack Sennett (1880-1960)
		Mack Sennett was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film.
		Roach signed up with MGM, leaving Sennett now by himself at Pathé;, but they were now on hard times because the hundreds of exhibitors that used to take their shorts had switched to the new MGM or Paramount subjects.
		In sum, Sennett's style made our great grandfathers laugh, but he was loath to ever change his formula of chases and messy fights.
	www.townshipsheritage.com /Eng/Hist/Arts/sennett.html (586 words)

	Books By Brown/Mack Made Movies
		Mack Sennett was born in Richmond, Canada on January 17, 1880.
		Mack turned to burlesque, a style of low-brow entertainment that was wildly popular, and took work as a theater stagehand.
		Mack Sennett's comedies became world-famous on the strength of his superb sense of comic timing and great eye for talent.
	www.booksbybrown.com /mackpage.html (581 words)

	Mack Sennett Studios
		Mack Sennett filmed his comedies in Edendale, a small town near Los Angeles which became part of Los Angeles during Sennett's tenure there from 1912 to 1928.
		This overhead shot of the Mack Sennett studios is a composite from shots used in THE HOLLYWOOD KID (1924).
		The famous Sennett cyclorama (used to simulate background chases) was located across the street from the Sennett studios on the other side of Effie Street.
	home.earthlink.net /~bcwalk/filmhistory/sennettstu.html (665 words)

	The religion of director Mack Sennett
		...[Mack Sennett] was born in Danville, near Richmond, Quebec, into a family of Irish Catholic farmers...
		Many Sennett films are so offensive in later American terms that they have not been shown for sixty years...
		For his characters, Sennett borrowed the usual burlesque assortment of ethnic stereotypes: Jews named Cohen, fls named Rastus, Irish named Riley, Germans named Meyer, Schuultz, and Heinie, and country bumpkins, usually played by Sennett himself.
	www.adherents.com /people/ps/Mack_Sennett.html (299 words)

	Mack Sennett - Films as director:, Other films:
		Sennett's Keystone films were extremely improvisational; a typical formula was to take a camera, a bucket of whitewash, and four clowns (two male, two female) out to a park and make a movie.
		Sennett served his apprenticeship in the American burlesque theater, and he brought to the Keystone films that same kind of entertainment which took place at the intersection of vulgar lunacy and comic pornography.
		Sennett ceased to direct films after 1914, becoming the producer and overseer of every comic film made by his company for the next two decades.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Sc-St/Sennett-Mack.html (1570 words)

	MackSennettandMabelNormand
		Mack Sennett was born in Canada in 1880 and as a teenager moved to the United States where he worked in vaudeville until he met the great movie director D. Griffith.
		Sennett played many roles for Griffith, mostly comedy, until he stumbled into directing when Griffith had him replace a director who was ill. After his initial success Sennett was asked by Griffith to head up his Biograph Comedy Unit.
		Sennett was a prolific movie maker, often making as many as three movies a day.
	www.eytmackandmabel.homestead.com /MackSennettandMabelNormand.html (366 words)

	Mack Sennett - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sennett, Mack (1880-1960), American motion-picture producer and director, who made a significant contribution to silent films in the United States...
		Mack, Connie (1862-1956), American professional baseball player, manager, and owner, who became manager of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901 and...
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	Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
		Of course, Sennett did not include his private papers in the collection so little is known of his private life--which he apparently kept private.
		Sennett was a movie pioneer who produced some of the earliest slapstick comedies.
		Louvish examines Sennett the man and tells the story of Mack's work from his early days with D.W. Griffith to his own productions beginning in the early teens and lasting into the 1930s and the talking picture revolution.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/0571211003.html (1100 words)

	Mack Sennett's grave
		Born Michael Sinnott in Richmond, Quebec, Canada Sennett was a son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers; his father was a flsmith in the small Eastern Townships village.
		His films featured a bevy of girls known as the Sennett Bathing Beauties which included Juanita Hansen and Phyllis Haver, as well as Mabel Normand, who became a major star (and with whom he embarked on a tumultuous personal relationship).
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry Sennett was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /HolyCrossObituaries/macksennett.htm (682 words)

	Mack Sennett
		Sennett retired in 1935, moving to a farm in Canada, virtually penniless.
		Sennett was portrayed by Robert Preston in the Broadway musical, "Mack and Mabel," in the mid-1970s, and by Dan Aykroyd in "Chaplin" (1992).
		Sennett was born Mikall Sinnott on Jan. 17, 1880, in Richmond, Canada.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /sennett.html (410 words)

	Blockbuster Online - Person Detail Information Page
		French-Canadian actor Joe Bordeaux joined Mack Sennett's Keystone comedy troupe in 1914 as a comedian and prop man. Though a capable performer, Bordeaux never really developed a screen character of his own, and by the late teens had settled into directing.
		Mack and Charlie are sent to deliver the one piano and pick up the other, for which, of course, they will mix up the addresses.
		At one point the slope is so severe that when Mack leans to the back of the wagon, the donkey is lifted right off the ground.
	www.blockbuster.com /catalog/personDetails/6593 (810 words)

	Mack Sennett
		Sennett's Keystone operation became a California version of Henry Ford's automobile plant in Michigan.
		In spite of the appearance of frenzied freedom in Sennett's slapstick orgies, the formula was in fact strict and unbending.
		Sennett also issued strict rules governing the type of gags that could be used; in fact, he declared, there were only two real categories of gags: "the fall of dignity and the mistaken identity."
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/sennett_m.htm (483 words)

	Keystone: Mack Sennett
		Mack Sennett was born an anarchist, a disturber of the peace who captured working-class resentments and turned them into comic mayhem at the expense of authority of all kinds.
		Had Attorney General John Ashcroft's minions been at work a century ago, they would surely have noticed that the cop-twitting Sennett was a foreigner, a farm-born Canadian who, having endured the terrors of an evangelical boarding school, had good reason to rebel.
		(Sennett's 1914 film "Tango Tangles," featuring Arbuckle and Chaplin, was, Louvish notes, "the only movie in which Chaplin appeared without appreciable makeup, sans mustache, large or small.") He even gave Frank Capra his first shot at directing, along with a tongue-in-cheek list of rules for the job ("Thou shalt not be seen carrying a book.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000444592 (593 words)

	Mack Sennett- Laugh Tester
		Sennett is one of the towering personalities of the moving picture world.
		Sennett is showing the actors how he thinks it ought to be done.
		Sennett says that the great problem at this stage of the comedy is to plan effects so they appear to have "just happened." Their highest efforts are put upon the accidents.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/5_mack_2.htm (2432 words)

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