King of Comedy
Pocketbok. Pinnacle. 1 uppl. 1975. 284 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Examines the life of the comedy genius who brought the Keystone Cops and Charlie Chaplin to the big screen. A lively, self-serving, pants-down tale of the Slapstick King building his kingdom. Sennett had a remarkable eye for talent (Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and many many others; Frank Capra worked for him as a writer) and a fanatical work ethic. If he was sometimes a bully, or snookered by forces too powerful for him to handle, well that goes with ruling a kingdom surrounded by empires. How much of the tale is actually what happened - who knows? The man made up funny stories for a living.
