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This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of the pioneering film producer and Academy Award winner Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy.
The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films produced, directed, written by, or featuring Sennett between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments 1
PART I. MACK SENNETT AND THE MOVIES: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Introduction to Part I 7
1. From Broadway to Biograph: Mack Sennett at the Biograph Company 14
2. Creating a Legend: The Keystone Film Company in the Mutual Years 25
3. One Point of the Triangle: Keystone Joins the Triangle Film Company 56
4. On His Own: The Paramount-Mack Sennett Comedies 86
5. The Feature Film Quest: Associated Producers and Associated First National 109
6. Back on Two-Reels: The Sennett-Pathé Years 128
7. Learning to Talk: Mack Sennett and Educational Pictures 184
8. The Last Hurrah: Sennett and Paramount Publix 208
9. Taking Early Retirement: The Post-Studio Years 222
PART II. MACK SENNETT FILMOGRAPHY
Introduction to Part II 245
The Biograph Company (1908-1912) 251
Keystone Comedies Released by Mutual (1912-1915) 265
Keystone Comedies Released by Triangle (1915-1917) 322
Paramount-Mack Sennett Comedies Released by Famous Players-Lasky (1917-1921) 348
Mack Sennett Comedies Released by Associated Producers and Associated First National Pictures (1921-1922) 369
Mack Sennett Comedies Released by Pathé (1923-1929) 377
Mack Sennett Comedies Released by Educational (1928-1932) 432
Mack Sennett Comedies Released by Paramount Publix (1932-1933) 451
Feature Films Produced by Mack Sennett (1914-1932) 460
Other Mack Sennett Film Credits, and Appearances on Broadway, Radio and Television 469
Theatrical Compilation Films Featuring Mack Sennett Footage 473
PART III. BIOGRAPHIES OF KEYSTONE AND MACK SENNETT STUDIO PERSONNEL
Introduction to Part III 481
Performers 483 Creative and Technical Personnel 556
Other Notable Personnel 586
Chapter Notes 599
Bibliography 602
Index 605