Mack Sennett went into semi-retirement at the age of 55, having produced more than 1, 000 silent films and several dozen talkies during a 25-year career.

The script went through several changes throughout its many drafts and at one point had an elaborate pie fight inspired by Mack Sennett films.

Interested in the theatre, he traveled to New York City then when fellow Canadian, Mack Sennett offered him a job at his new Keystone Studios, Lord went on to work in Hollywood, California.

Sennett originally went by the names Blake Soper and Blake Swendson as an actor.

After seeing several Mack Sennett comedies while in Venice, California during the 1913 winter break, the 27-year-old Conklin went to Keystone Studios, applied for a job and was hired as a Keystone Kop with a salary of $ 3 a day.

In 1920, when Sennett refused to discuss a contract renewal with Conklin and insisted on referring him to an underling, Conklin quit and went to Fox Film Corporation, which had earlier approached him about doing a series of comedy shorts.

Sennett kept him on, however, when a request arrived for more Chaplin films.

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

In the This Is Your Life TV tribute to Mack Sennett several Sennett alumni ran on stage dressed as Keystone Cops.

The family lived for a time in Northampton, Massachusetts, where, according to his autobiography, Sennett first got the idea to go on stage after seeing a vaudeville show.

Sennett occasionally experimented with color and was the first to get a talkie short subject on the market, in 1928.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry Sennett was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

The Town of Sennett is on the eastern county line of Cayuga County and borders Auburn, New York.

The Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage, built in 1848, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* McMasters Corners – A location on NY-34, west of Sennett village.

* Sennett ( once " Fellows Corners ") – The hamlet of Sennett is located on NY-5, northeast of Auburn.

on April 26, 1953, and twice on This Is Your Life: on March 10, 1954 for Mack Sennett, and again on December 14, 1955 on his own episode.

She would go on to make several films under the renowned D. W. Griffith, with her first credited film being in the 1909 film The Politician's Love Story, starring Mack Sennett and Kathlyn Williams.

She met director Mack Sennett while at D. W. Griffith's Biograph Company and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him ; he later brought her across when he founded Keystone Studios in 1912.

Her breakup with Sennett seems to have caused Normand to re-evaluate her life and she embarked on a program of self-education, developing keen and lasting interests in reading and books.

He draws on Sennett and Cobb, who examine the " contest for dignity " in a context of dramatic inequality.

Shooting took place on the Republic Pictures backlot at 4024 Radford Avenue in Los Angeles, California ( built by Mack Sennett and now home to CBS Studio Center ).

Sennett, by then a celebrity, departed the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films ( eventually distributed through Paramount ).

In this year Sennett did more directing, but still starred in films.

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.

Sennett's style of " pie in the face " comedy is different from Chaplin's slower, more deliberate style, and when Charlie tries to assert his ideas, Sennett gives him some strong advice (" Less It Ends With a Chase ").

Although she told reporters she liked working for Mack Sennett, she wanted to do more than slapstick comedy.

In 1915 Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the ambitious Triangle Film Corporation, as Sennett joined forces with movie bigwigs D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince.

In November 1914, Chaplin appeared in the first feature length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Sennett.

Sennett left in 1912 to set up the Keystone company, where he could give his enthusiasm for the slapstick comedy style derived from the earlier Pathé comedies like le Cheval emballé ( The Runaway Horse ) full rein.

Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.

Mack Sennett ( January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960 ) was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film.

Sennett developed the Kid Comedies, a forerunner of the Our Gang films, and in a short time his name became synonymous with screen comedy.

Also beginning in 1915, Sennett assembled a bevy of girls known as the Sennett Bathing Beauties to appear in provocative bathing costumes in comedy short subjects, in promotional material, and in promotional events like Venice Beach beauty contests.

( Sennett's corporate bosses retained the Keystone trademark and produced a cheap series of comedy shorts that were " Keystones " in name only: they were unsuccessful, and Sennett had no connection with them.

In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.

A line in a Henry Kuttner science fiction short story, Piggy Bank, reads " Within seconds the scene resembled a Mack Sennett pie-throwing comedy.

* Mack Sennett, who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, formed a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel called Keystone Studios.

Her first MGM feature was The Callahans and the Murphys ( 1927 ), a rowdy silent comedy co-starring Dressler ( as Ma Callahan ) with another former Mack Sennett comedienne, Polly Moran, written by Marion.

Fields made four short subjects for comedy pioneer Mack Sennett in 1932 and 1933, distributed through Paramount Pictures.

Chaplin brings a certain complexity to his janitor, unusual to the comedy factory of Mack Sennett.

Educational made a smooth transition to sound movies by handling the early talking comedies of comedy pioneer Mack Sennett.

In 1923, he joined the Mack Sennett studio as a comedy writer.

The following year her good looks landed her work as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties doing comedy shorts at Keystone / Triangle Studios.