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

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.

Another new major producing company formed during the war years was Triangle, with Mack Sennett, D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince heading its production units.

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.

And although Gloria Swanson worked for Sennett in 1916 and was photographed in a bathing suit, she was also a star and " vehemently denied " being one of the bathing beauties.

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

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.

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.

Sennett directed his first film this year with D. W. Griffith, but was uncredited for his work.

This year Sennett was in 69 films.

Sennett was involved in 83 films this year.

* Useful Sheep ( 1912, unconfirmed of it was directed by Sennett )

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

Sennett also was a leading character in The Biograph Girl, a 1980 musical about the silent film era.

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.

Sennett was part of the Central New York Military Tract, land reserved for war veterans.

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

Part of Sennett was used to contribute territory to the Town of Throop in 1859.

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

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.

In addition to being a musician, Sennett was a child actor, appearing on the television shows Salute Your Shorts and Boy Meets World.

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.

( 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.

Henry Mancini's score for the 1963 film, The Pink Panther, the original entry in the series, contains a segment called " Shades of Sennett ".

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.

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.

A major distinction in his acting career, often overlooked, is the fact that Sennett played Sherlock Holmes 11 times, albeit as a parody, between 1911 and 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 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.

This is an incomplete ( at the time ) list of films with Sennett acting, producing and directing.

Peter Lovesey's 1983 novel Keystone is a whodunnit set in the Keystone Studios and involving ( among others ), Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle and the Keystone Cops.

Sennett is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

The town is named after a public official and early settler, Daniel Sennett.

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.

Sennett is in the Finger Lakes District, being near the north end of Owasco Lake and Skaneateles Lake.

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

While indeed silent ( except for one word and numerous sound effects ), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton.

Vada is teased by other girls because her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett ( Macaulay Culkin ), is unpopular and a boy.

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.

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.

Potong Pasir is an area located between Toa Payoh and Sennett Estate in the North-East Region of Singapore.

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.

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 ").

Blake Sennett ( born September 22, 1976 ) is the lead guitarist for indie rock band Rilo Kiley and the lead singer / lead guitarist for his alt-rock side project the Elected.