A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Page scan 00052 from A pictorial history of the movies

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00052
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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38 BIRTH AND INFANCY It was in this same year, 1914, that Mack Sennett, the proud proprietor of his own studio, realized his life's ambition— to prove that a policeman is good comedy material. No one who has seen the Keystone Cops in action on the screen would ever dispute him. Here they are. At the desk sits Ford Sterling. Facing him, and reading, for once, from right to left, are Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, Rube Miller, Hank Mann, Al St. John, and George Jesky. A typical Keystone Cop comedy of 1914. Never mind the name. The girl is Juanita Hanson, with Bobbie Vernon on her left. At the desk is Ford Sterling, reputed instigator of the pie-throwing vogue. Legend has it that one day, when the company was filming a scene in a bakery, Sterling, finding at hand none of the customary ammunition— bottles, mallets, and felt bricks— grabbed a custard pie and hurled it. The rest is history.