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Mack Sennett was a Canadian-American producer, director, actor, and studio head who was known as the "King of Comedy" during his career.
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culture · Canadian-American film producer (1880–1960) · film director · film producer · screenwriter · cinematographer · television presenter · composer · film actor · producer · director · film score composer · also Mack Sennett, Michael Sinnott, Mack Sennet, Sennett
Born 17 January 1880 · Died 5 November 1960 · Q317574
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While Mack Sennett has a secure and valued place in the history of screen comedy, it is surely not as a developer of individual talents ... Chaplin, Langdon, and Lloyd were all on the lot at one point or another, but developed their styles only in spite of Sennett, and grew to their artistic peaks only away from his influence ... screen comedy followed Chaplin's lead and began to focus more on personality than situation.
Sennett left Educational and signed with Paramount Pictures.{ Sennett
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“While Mack Sennett has a secure and valued place in the history of screen comedy, it is surely not as a developer of individual talents ... Chaplin, Langdon, and Lloyd were all on the lot at one point or another, but developed their styles only in spite of Sennett, and grew to their artistic peaks only away from his influence ... screen comedy followed Chaplin's lead and began to focus more on personality than situation.”
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“Sennett left Educational and signed with Paramount Pictures.{ Sennett”
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insider.si.edu: 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 / Brent E. Walker
Laweekly: How Mack Sennett Studios Was Reborn as a Hub for Silver Lake’s Creative Community
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KCRW: Photos: My Morning Jacket at Mack Sennett Studio for KCRW
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2004).
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Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman wrote the musical Mack & Mabel, chronicling the romance between Sennett and Mabel Normand
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Died 1960-11-05.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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Prompting TV producer Ralph Edwards to mount a tribute to Sennett for the television series This Is Your Life
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Provided film footage for the first full-length comedy compilation film, Down Memory Lane (1949), written and narrated by Steve Allen
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For his contributions to the film industry, with the academy describing him as a "master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius"
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Was as a producer-director for Educational, in which he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar
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Sennett was injured in an automobile accident that killed blackface performer Charles Mack (of Moran and Mack) in Mesa, Arizona
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Novelty for Wrestling Swordfish (1932).
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Sennett attempted to re-enter the feature-film market on a grand scale with Hypnotized
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Was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth (with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chas
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Sennett canceled all of his talent contracts and retooled his studio for the new talking-picture technology
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Hollywood's two most successful studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures, took note of the profits being made by smaller companies such as Pathé Exchange and Earle Hammons's Educational Pictures
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Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company, Mack Sennett Comedies Corporation
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Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the ambitious Triangle Film Corporation, as Sennett joined forces with D
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Sennett assembled a bevy of women known as the Sennett Bathing Beauties to appear in provocative bathing costumes in comedy short subjects, in promotional material, and in promotional events such as Venice Beach beauty c
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Was the longest comedy film ever produced, Sennett planned Hypnotized along similar lines as an epic production that would be shown first-run in select roadshow engagements
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And later opened Keystone Studios in Edendale, California in 1912
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Born 1880-01-17.
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In Tingwick, Quebec and moved the same year to Richmond, Quebec where Sinnott was hired as a laborer
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