Mack sennett autobiography of a face
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The Garden Court Apartments, at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, are long gone, replaced by an ugly mini-mall with a drugstore, a fitness club, and a Fresh and Easy supermarket.
Mack sennett autobiography of a face
Mack Sennett used to live there, just opposite the still standing Roosevelt Hotel when it was a fancy address. This is where he worked on his autobiography, so appropriately titled “King of Comedy”, published in 1954, six years before his death at 80.
“As I look back on more than half a century of professional nonsense, my life unwinds like a two-reel comedy chase sequence – a leaping funnyman flees from the Keystone Cops, falls off a cliff into a bevy of Bathing Beauties, suddenly discovers a custard pie in his hand”, he writes at the beginning of his memoirs.
In one sentence, he sums up the cocktail of ingredients that became his trademark of slapstick in hundreds of short films that delighted audiences in the silent movie era. “Many people, some of them astute, allow that I was the originator of motion picture