Keystone Studios
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Keystone StudiosKeystone Studios, c. 1917 Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion... In this article: Keystone Studios, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Trademark, Westlake Entertainment, California, Bankruptcy, and Keystone Kops |
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
...Floor '', a sorrowful tale of a painter who takes to drink after his lover deserts him for the fairhaired lad in one of his portraits. Keystone Studios adapted the poem for a 1914 film of the same name starring Charlie Chaplin, and John...
In this article: Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, Siegmund Lubin, Charlie Chaplin, Hank Snow, John Ford, Tex Ritter, Yukon, and New York City
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The Watson family (actors)
...Watson Jr., Bobs , Delmar , Harry , Garry , Billy , Vivian, Gloria, and Louise , all of whom acted in motion pictures.. When Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, which was just about 600 feet from the Watson home, needed child actors for film...
In this article: Hollywood, Coy Watson Jr., Belmont High School, Henry Fonda, and Lionel Barrymore
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Life123 | October 28, 2009
Early Films of Charlie Chaplin
...movie era directly influenced each generation of actors and directors that has followed. Chaplin got his start in front of the camera in the Keystone Studios and starred in several short films while his popularity grew. Early Acting
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Making a Living, The Little Tramp, Little Tramp, The Pawnshop, and The Adventurer
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Ventura Boulevard
...appropriately named Woodland Hills. In 1928, just a couple blocks east of Laurel Canyon , Mack Sennett created his 38 acre (15.4 hm²) Keystone Studios, which produced silent movies with stars such as Fatty Arbuckle, W.C. Fields, Stan Laurel,...
In this article: Ventura Boulevard, U.S. Route 101, Cahuenga Pass, Woodland Hills, Keystone Kops, Stan Laurel, and Republic Pictures
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Mack Sennett
...1913. With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California , (which is now a part of Echo Park). The original main building,...
In this article: Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Pathe, Keystone Cops, MGM, Bing Crosby, Trademark, and Academy Award
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (poem)
...the middle of his work. That well nigh filled Joes' barroom "Where did it come from?" someone said, "What does it want?" another cried, Keystone Studios used the poem as the basis for a 1914 film of the same name starring Charles...
In this article: Mad, Henry Mollicone, Basil Wolverton, Charles Chaplin, Hank Snow, Doris Day, and Tex Ritter
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Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling (November 3, 1882 - October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops. Born George Ford Stich in La Crosse,...
In this article: Ford Sterling, Keystone Cops, Mack Sennett, Marvel Rea, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, La Crosse, and Los Angeles
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Show People
...was inspired in part by that of Gloria Swanson, who got her start as a Bathing Beauty at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios before hitting it big as a dramatic actress, and who later married a French nobleman . The character of Andre was...
In this article: Marion Davies, Show People, William Randolph Hearst, When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Haines, King Vidor, and Hollywood
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Mabel's Married Life
Mabel's Married Life is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring and co-written by Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and directed by Chaplin. As was so often the case during his first year in film, Chaplin's...
In this article: Charles Chaplin, Mabel's Married Life, and Mabel Normand
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NPR | June 04, 2008
Dave Douglas Re-Imagines Silent Film, Jazz : NPR Music
WBGO, June 4, 2008 - Before movies featured synchronized sound, California's Keystone Studios made comedic film shorts. Originally, theatergoers would watch these movies to the sound of the house Wurlitzer organ. Fast forward to now.
In this article: Dave Douglas, Buster Keaton, Moonshine, Fatty Arbuckle, and Marcus Strickland
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Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company filmed in and around Glendale and Silver Lake for several years, and was owned by the Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915.
The studio is perhaps best remembered for the era under Mack Sennett when he created the slapstick antics of the Keystone Cops and for the "Sennett Bathing Beauties." Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent films. Charlie Chaplin at Keystone Studios is a 1993 compilation of some of the most notable films Chaplin made at Keystone, documenting his transition from vaudeville player to true comic film actor to director. In 1915 Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the Triangle Film Corporation with D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince. In 1917 Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company.
Many other important actors also began their careers at Keystone, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Louise Fazenda, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin.
Sennett, by then a celebrity, departed the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through Paramount). The business of Keystone Studios decreased after his departure, and was finally dissolved after bankruptcy in 1935.
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