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Many other important actors also began their career at Keystone, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Griffith , Ford Sterling , Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben TurpinBen Turpin (c. 1872 July 1, 1940) was a comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films. Turpin was born Benjamin T. Turpin in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a candy store owner. His birthdate is usually given as September 17, but various years, Harry Langdon , and Chester Conklin .
The studio is perhaps best remembered now for the slapstickThis article is about comedic slapstick. For the percussion instrument, see whip (instrument). Slapstick is a type of comedy involving physical action. One classic piece of slapstick is the hapless slip on a banana peel. The style was explored extensively antics of the Keystone KopsThe Keystone Kops was a series of silent film comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. The idea came from Hank Mann, who also played police chief Tehiezel in the fir.
Sennett, by then a major star, left the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through ParamountParamount can refer to: Paramount, California a city in Los Angeles County Paramount Pictures a motion picture company Paramount Records a record label United Paramount Network ( UPN), a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. a Para). Keystone faded away after his departure, and was finally dissolved after bankruptcy in 1935.
After the bankruptcy, the movie lot in Studio City was sold to Mascot Studios , then Monogram Studios , which eventually became Republic PicturesRepublic Pictures Corporation is considered by some to be one of the first major independent movie studios, best known for creating B-movie product featuring A-movie stars. Founded in 1935 by Herbert Yates as a merger of several smaller "poverty row" stud. The lot was taken over in 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey by CBS Television (which filmed GunsmokeGunsmoke was a long-running old-time radio and television western drama program. Radio The radio show ran 1952- 1961 on the CBS radio network, with William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Parley Baer as De and The Wild Wild WestThe Wild Wild West was an American TV show that ran from 1965 to 1969. It was made into two movies with the original cast in 1979 and 1980 and remade in 1999 with a new cast and story. See Wild Wild West''. The Wild Wild West told the story of the country there), and from 1985 to 1992 was owned jointly by CBS and Mary Tyler Moore's M-T-M Enterprises , which produced numerous other successful TV shows. In 1992 CBS bought back MTM's share and the lot was renamed CBS Studio Center. It is still home to numerous television and feature film shoots. It was itself used as the fictional film studio "Sunrise Studios" in the horror film Scream 3.
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