"Two Black Crows" black-face performers George Moran and Charles Mack were a popular minstrel act Mack Sennett earned fame as a director and producer of comedies Sennett had directed Mack and ...

“Mack Sennett girls” in bathing suits in Santa Monica in the 1920s. The women were ever-present on his Studio City lot. Los Angeles Public Library photo collection The freshly paved streets ...

Legendary film producer Mack Sennett was a survivor, a strapping, cigar-chomping Irishman whose wildly popular silent shorts provided a training ground for some of Hollywood’s most illustrious ...

Performances begin tonight for the New York City Center Encores! first show of the 2020 season- Mack & Mabel, running for seven performances February 19-23. Led by Broadway's Douglas Sills and ...

The rest of the scenario sounded as if it had been written by Mack Sennett. At the main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They ...

In April, the newly renovated Mack Sennett Studios at Fountain and Effie in Silver Lake welcomed then-mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti for a campaign event. “This isn’t just a place ...

Much of the blame for the short-lived 1974 production was placed on the decidedly unhappy ending, in which Robert Preston as silent-film director Mack Sennett announced to the audience the death ...

the birthday of silent film pioneer Mack Sennett. A bit player and director in Hollywood's early days, Sennett launched his own studio in 1912, the Keystone Film Company. Nobody's idea of an art ...