Mack Sennett

...complex, both revered and reviled. Louvish documents the actor's life through his film work, beginning with the shorts shot by Mack Sennett, through such seminal feature films as The Gold Rush, City Lights, The Great Dictator, and Modern...

In this article: Jane Austen, Andre Agassi, Charlie Chaplin, Simon Louvish, Chiang Kai-shek, Edward VIII, Paul Newman, Mao Zedong, Hollywood, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

...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 Kops and for the "Sennett Bathing Beauties." Charlie Chaplin...

In this article: Keystone Studios, Charlie Chaplin, Trademark, Westlake Entertainment, California, Bankruptcy, and Keystone Kops

...Jr., Lillian Gish, Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Adolph Zukor, Walt Disney and "Keystone Cops" creator Mack Sennett. "Mary," which played Oscar-qualifying engagements in New York and L.A. in September, will open early...

In this article: Oscar, Buddy Rogers, Hollywood, Coquette, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolph Zukor, NEW YORK, and Charlie Chaplin

...Griffith and Thomas Ince. In 1917 Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company, Mack Sennett Comedies Corporation. (Sennett's corporate bosses retained the Keystone trademark and produced a cheap series of comedy...

In this article: Mabel Normand, Pathe, Keystone Cops, Keystone Studios, MGM, Bing Crosby, Trademark, and Academy Award

...12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is also willing to assist the military and police in hunting down the kidnappers of Michael Sinnott, rebel spokesman Eid Kabalu told AFP from his base in the south on Tuesday. "We are not...

In this article: Michael Sinnott, Abu Sayyaf, Al-Qaeda, Surgery, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and Philippines

...Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand (transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the...

In this article: Mabel Normand, Jerry Herman, William Desmond Taylor, Keystone Cops, Mack & Mabel, UK, David Merrick, and Molly Smith

...dancers on as they laid bare the low-brow in Stravinsky's jazz-era Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. Suddenly the girls were all Mack Sennett bathing beauties, and the boys all musclemen, or barkers, or urchins sneaking into the show under...

In this article: George Balanchine, Serenade, Symphony in C, Swan Lake, Uliana Lopatkina, and London

...Entertainment released "Becoming Charley Chase," a fascinating four-disc DVD that chronicles his career from his earliest days with Mack Sennett before World War I through his silent years at Roach. Each short has breezy, informative...

In this article: Charley Chase, DVD, and World War I

...no less infallible than Holmes. A character as distinctive as Holmes, let alone as solemn, presents a big comic target. Mack Sennett played him in several silent comedy shorts. Gene Wilder directed and starred in "The Adventures of...

In this article: Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles, George C. Scott, C. Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jeremy Brett

...death. Andy Clyde has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the height of Andy Clyde's fame Mack Sennett decided to give him a paycut. Clyde objected and Sennett roped in another actor to don the old man costume, audiences saw through...

In this article: Andy Clyde, Walter Brennan, Andy Griffith, Madge Blake, Hopalong Cassidy, The Three Stooges, and The Green Years