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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
456 words, approx. 2 pages
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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Sennett, Mack
151 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Jan. 17, 1880, Richmond, Que., Can.—died Nov. 5, 1960, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Canadian-born U.S. film director. He performed in burlesque and vaudeville before joining the Biograph studio in 1908, and he soon was directing comedies under...
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Mack Sennett Information
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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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Film & History
Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
07/01/2004: 738 words, approx. 3 pages
Simon Louvish. Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett. Faber and Faber, 2003. 352 pages; $25.00. Canadian-born Michael Sinnott A pleasant read, with photocopies or excerpts of partial scripts, studio synopses, contemporary print cartoons, etc., randomly scattered about. If you are...
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Film Comment
Keystone: the Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
03/01/2004: 228 words, approx. 1 pages
Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett, by Simon Louvish (Faber & Faber, $25). At the height of his powers, in the late teens and early Twenties of the last century, Mack Sennett presided over the largest studio in Hollywood, churning out...
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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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