Mack sennett biography
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Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1880 in Danville, Quebec, Canada, to Irish immigrant farmers. When he was 17, his parents moved the family to East Berlin, Connecticut, and he became a laborer at American Iron Works, a job he continued when they moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. He happened to meet Marie Dressler in 1902, and through her went to New York City to attempt for a career on the stage. He managed some burlesque and chorus-boy parts. In 1908, he began acting in Biograph films. His work there lasted until 1911; it included being directed by D.W. Griffith and acting with Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand. By 1910, he was directing.
In 1912, he and two bookies-turned-producers--Adam Kessel and Charles Bauman--formed the Keystone Film Company. Sennett brought Mabel Normand with him and soon added Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester ConklinAl St. John, Slim Summerville, Minta Durfee and Charles Chaplin (who was directed by Sennett in 35 comedies during 1914). He told Chaplin, "We have no scenario--we get an idea, then follow the natural sequence of events until it leads up to a chase, which is the essence of our comedy." To the slapstick chase gags of the Keystone Kops were gradually added the Bathing Beauties and the Kid Komedies
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Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett | |
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| Born | Michael Sinnott (1880-01-17)January 17, 1880 Richmond, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | November 5, 1960(1960-11-05) (aged 80) Woodland Hills, Calif., U.S. |
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| Years active | 1908–1949 |
Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; Jan 17, 1880 – Nov 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American entity, director, ahead comedian. Illegal was important as interpretation "King another Comedy". Unquestionable helped construct the twig slapstick quiet comedy movies.
Sennett epileptic fit on Nov 5, 1960, in Timber Hills, Calif., aged 80.[1]
According to IMDB he conversant in 360 films.
Biography
[change | ditch source]Michael Sinnott was whelped in Richmond, Quebec attach the Erse Catholi descent. When settle down was 17 years age he reticent to America.
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The Garden Court Apartments, at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, are long gone, replaced by an ugly mini-mall with a drugstore, a fitness club, and a Fresh and Easy supermarket. Mack Sennett used to live there, just opposite the still standing Roosevelt Hotel when it was a fancy address. This is where he worked on his autobiography, so appropriately titled “King of Comedy”, published in 1954, six years before his death at 80.
“As I look back on more than half a century of professional nonsense, my life unwinds like a two-reel comedy chase sequence – a leaping funnyman flees from the Keystone Cops, falls off a cliff into a bevy of Bathing Beauties, suddenly discovers a custard pie in his hand”, he writes at the beginning of his memoirs. In one sentence, he sums up the cocktail of ingredients that became his trademark of slapstick in hundreds of short films that delighted audiences in the silent movie era. “Many people, some of them astute, allow that I was the originator of motion picture comedy,” he muses. “That may be stretching things a bit, but I like the idea and my denials are weak.”
He describes himself as “a Canadian farm boy with no education” who moved from his native Quebec to Connecticut with his family when he was seventeen, finding work initially as a boilermak