Mack Sennett
Noun
Meaning
United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960)
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Actually, Sennett was not involved in the making of this film.) 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.
Independent production In 1917, Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company, Mack Sennett Comedies Corporation.
In the early months of 1931, a solo recording contract came Bing's way, Mack Sennett signed him to make film shorts and a break with the Rhythm Boys became almost inevitable.
Spook Louder (1943), a remake of Mack Sennett 's The Great Pie Mystery (1931), is often cited as their worst film.
The Keystone legacy A line in a Henry Kuttner science fiction short story "Piggy Bank" reads "Within seconds the scene resembled a Mack Sennett pie-throwing comedy."
The movies were produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.