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Name: Mack Sennett
Birth Date: January 17, 1884
Death Date: November 6, 1960
Place of Birth: Richmond, Quebec, Canada
Place of Death: Woodland Hills, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: film producer, film director

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Biography of Mack Sennett
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The American silent-screen producer and director Mack Sennett (1884-1960) is frequently considered the originator of film comedy. He perfected the art of silent-screen slapstick in his "Keystone" series. Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on Jan....


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Sennett, Mack (1880-1960) Summary
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In February of 1914, Mack Sennett's Keystone company released a comedy called Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which a young English vaudevillian who had recently joined Sennett's company of comedians appeared briefly in a battered suit of...
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Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of...


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The New York Observer
Raw Deal for James Stewart, Dismal Biographer's Victim
11/12/2006: 782 words, approx. 3 pages
Posterity, and many high-end critics, seem to have simultaneously arrived at the general proposition that the greatest male star of the golden age was Cary Grant. He was, after all, both sexy and a superb comedian—the rarest combination in movies. And he contrived to almost...
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The New York Observer
Raw Deal for James Stewart, Dismal Biographer\'d5s Victim
11/12/2006: 783 words, approx. 3 pages
Posterity, and many high-end critics, seem to have simultaneously arrived at the general proposition that the greatest male star of the golden age was Cary Grant. He was, after all, both sexy and a superb comedian—the rarest combination in movies. And he contrived to almost...
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The New York Observer
Back to the Future, Close Encounters Enter National Archives
12/27/2007: 3,059 words, approx. 10 pages
Great Scott! Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oklahoma! and 12 Angry Men were among the 25 selections entered into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry this year. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the entries this morning. “Even...
 


 

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