Mack Sennett Stage History

History of The Mack Sennett Stage

"During this period, from about 1912 until about 1920, the very marvelling of the general public, watching every new film with mouths agape, was sufficient for the studios to become established on a practical basis, capable of mass production. To this golden era belongs the best work of Griffith, Thomas Ince, and Mack Sennett, together with the sincere efforts of William S. Hart and Douglas Fairbanks. These pictures had...an intensity of feeling and air of honesty that have long since vanished in the up-to-date slickness of the Hollywood movie."

- PAUL ROTHA, The Film Till Now, page 129

The Mack Sennett studios in 1916

Frame from "Molly O" (Mabel Normand, center)

Sennett offered Normand her own film company and studio - the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. One of the first projects of the new film company was "Mickey" (1918) starring Normand in the title role as a girl from the wilds of California who is sent to live with her high-society relatives in the East. The film effectively combined comedy with melodrama and showed audiences another side of Normand's talent as an actress. But the pressure of running her own film company and studio in addition to starring in the films proved to be too much for Normand. She left Sennett and went to work for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation for a few years but returned to Sennett to star in "Molly O'" (1921).


History of The Mack Sennett Stage
"During this period, from about 1912 until about 1920, the very marvelling of the general public, watching every new film with mouths agape, was sufficient for the studios to become established on a practical basis, capable of mass production. To this golden era belongs the best work of Griffith, Thomas Ince, and Mack Sennett, together with the sincere efforts of William S. Hart and Douglas Fairbanks. These pictures had...an intensity of feeling and air of honesty that have long since vanished in the up-to-date slickness of the Hollywood movie." - PAUL ROTHA, The Film Till Now, page 129
The Mack Sennett studios in 1916	Permit for studio construction
Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett	Poster for Mable Normand film, Molly O
Frame from "Molly O" (Mabel Normand, center) Sennett offered Normand her own film company and studio - the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. One of the first projects of the new film company was "Mickey" (1918) starring Normand in the title role as a girl from the wilds of California who is sent to live with her high-society relatives in the East. The film effectively combined comedy with melodrama and showed audiences another side of Normand's talent as an actress. But the pressure of running her own film company and studio in addition to starring in the films proved to be too much for Normand. She left Sennett and went to work for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation for a few years but returned to Sennett to star in "Molly O'" (1921).
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