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.

His boss was Mack Sennett, who initially expressed concern that the 24-year-old looked too young.

Preston ( as Sennett ) was too old for Peters ( Mabel ), and their characters lacked chemistry.

According to Wikimapia the immediate seller was not the original development company, but Mack Sennett personally, " who wasn't doing too well in the post-silent Hollywood era and really needed the money.

Canadian born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios.

Described as " complete with twelve shimmering pop songs reminiscent of mid-century West Coast rock ", Sennett played most instruments and produced the album himself: “ I played most of the instruments myself, so it was easier to erase stuff without hurting anyone ’ s feelings.

His screen character was so unique, and his antics so different from the broad Sennett slapstick, that he soon had a following.

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.

Now grown up and a consummate English Stage comedian, Charlie is discovered by filmmaker Mack Sennett and signed to a contract at Keystone Studios in California.

Harry Bernard ( January 13, 1878 – November 4, 1940 ) was a movie comedian who worked for Mack Sennett and with Laurel & Hardy, usually typecast as a policeman.

Educational's most prolific comedian in the 1930s was undoubtedly the Sennett star Andy Clyde, who made 54 comedies.

His new production company became an autonomous production unit partner in Triangle Film Corporation along with Thomas Ince and Keystone Studios ' Mack Sennett ; the Triangle Film Corporation was headed by Griffith's partner Harry Aitken, who was released from the Mutual Film Corporation, and his brother Roy.

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.

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 ).

As a result, many Sennett films, especially those from his most productive and creative period, no longer exist.

( The 1935 Vitaphone short subject Keystone Hotel is not a Sennett production ; it featured several alumni from the Sennett studio, but Sennett himself had no connection with the film.

Rumors abounded that Sennett would be returning to film production ( a 1938 publicity release indicated that he would be working with Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy ), but apart from Sennett reissuing a couple of his Bing Crosby two-reelers to theaters, nothing happened.

She lived with a friend from the days of Mack Sennett, Madalynne Fields, who became Lombard's personal secretary.

* Harry Williams, successful songwriter, and sometime director for Mack Sennett graduated from Pillsbury Military Academy.

The Town of Sennett was formed from the Town of Brutus and the Town of Aurelius in 1827.

The Town of Throop was formed in 1859 from parts of the towns of Aurelius, Mentz, and Sennett.

" Despite having received past help from Harrison, Bilbo actively supported Martin Sennett Conner for Harrison's Senate seat, presumably as a self-serving political maneuver.

The pie fight scene paid homage to the early Mack Sennett practice of using a single thrown pie as comedic punctuation, but to a greater degree it was a celebration of classic movie pie fights such as Charlie Chaplin's Behind the Screen ( 1916 ), The Battle of the Century ( 1927 ) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and The Three Stooges ' In the Sweet Pie and Pie from 1941.

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 studio is perhaps best remembered for the era under Mack Sennett when he created the slapstick antics of the Keystone Kops, from 1912, and for the Sennett Bathing Beauties, beginning in 1915.

Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent 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 ").

The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand ( transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the musical ), who became one of his biggest stars.

In a series of flashbacks, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early " two-reelers ", through his creation of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death from tuberculosis in 1930.

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.

There is another Sennett Estate in the eastern part of Singapore and is located along Upper East Coast Road.

After creating the Studio City lot, Sennett in five years was forced to file bankruptcy and the studio lot was sold off to another film company, Mascot Pictures.

While the executive at Biograph may not have believed him, they nevertheless gave him his first acting work in film, appearing as one of many in a mob scene with another aspiring actor named Mack Sennett.

However, Sennett enjoyed great success with short comedies starring Bing Crosby ; these films were probably instrumental in Sennett's product being picked up by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.

Sennett's studio did not survive the Great Depression ; the Sennett-Paramount partnership lasted only one year, and Sennett was forced into bankruptcy in November 1933.

After Mack Sennett became the owner of his namesake motion picture studio, he convinced Dressler to star in his highly successful 1914 silent film Tillie's Punctured Romance.

However, the Great Depression devastated the film industry and Sennett was forced to close his studio in 1933.

He moved to Hollywood, California after Bray switched to a publicity film studio in 1927, where he worked briefly for director Frank Capra and was a gag writer for Mack Sennett comedies.

In 1918, as her relationship with Sennett came to an end, Normand signed a $ 3, 500 a week contract with Samuel Goldwyn and opened a film studio in Culver City.

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

Silent movie director Mack Sennett returns to his old film studio in Brooklyn in 1938.

Most of Langdon's 1920s work was produced at the famous Mack Sennett studio.

Mack Sennett, a silent film producer and director, came to the San Fernando Valley and opened his new movie studio at this location ( at what's now Ventura Boulevard and Radford Avenue ) in May 1928.

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

After breaking with Capra and the Mack Sennett studio, Ripley again returned to being a gag writer, screenwriter and occasional director, making short films with such comedians as W. C. Fields and Edgar Kennedy.