Keystone
Hollywood studio (Edendale, California) founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett with the support of Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, both owner of the New York Motion Picture Company. After the departure of the founder in 1917, the studios declined before declaring bankruptcy in 1935.
The studio is famous especially for its brutal comedies (slapstick) which took again the physical play of the light comedy of the time. The Keystone Cops , this band of police officers mild nutters at whom they arrived the worst malheures, and Charlie Chaplin, which made its beginning in 1914 there, share the important facts of weapons of the studio with the famous beauties in shirt that Sennet liked to integrate into its productions (Sennett Bathing Beauties).
Among the actors who launched their career with Keystone let us mention: Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Louise Fazenda, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Norman, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin
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