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Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning actor and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy."
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"Mack Sennett directs the picture right well. Dressler wears clothes that make her appear ridiculous. Furthermore she makes gestures and distorts her face in all directions, which help all the more. The picture runs a trifle too long, but the hilarious, hip-hurrah comedy finale is worth waiting for."
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Many of Sennett's best remembered comics light up this collection with "LOVE'S INTRIGUE" starring Billy Bevan in a great rube-goldberg style comedy that end in a boxing match with a typical Sennett chase. Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery and Bobby Vernon star in the classic silent comedy thriller-parody "TEDDY AT THE THROTTLE". Teddy is the Sennett Studio's canine star whose race against time helps save Gloria, who is tied to the railroad tracks by villain Wallace Beery. Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde star in "CIRCUS TODAY" with a cast of characters and animals and loads of sight-gags and chases. Another great fast-action Sennett comedy is "WATER WAGONS" from 1926.
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Sennett, Mack (1880-1960), American motion-picture producer and director, who made a significant contribution to silent films in the United States with the frenetic slapstick comedy that he introduced and perfected. Sennett was the film industry's first real producer, a versatile entrepreneur who recognized and encouraged talent and who created a systematic approach to production that yielded a large quantity of films.
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Sennett made a reasonably smooth transition to sound films, releasing them through Earle Hammons's Educational Pictures. Sennett occasionally experimented with color and was the first to get a talkie short subject on the market, in 1928. In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth (with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.
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Mack Sennett, the father of silent film comedy was born in Richmond, Quebec about the same time as Edith. He was Irish Catholic and Edith Scotch Presbyterian so it is not likely their paths crossed much, although Norman did do business with Sennett's father, J F Sinnott. He sold him some grain in the late 1880s. Sinnott's name ... shows up on town voting lists.
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