Editing Mack Sennett (section)

==Early life==
Born Michael Sinnott in [[Danville, Quebec]],<ref name=":3" /> he was the son of [[Irish Catholic]] John Sinnott and Catherine Foy. His parents married in 1879 in [[Tingwick]], Quebec and moved the same year to Richmond, Quebec where Sinnott was hired as a laborer.<ref name="Spokane Daily Chronicle - March 25th 1932">{{cite web |title=Give Citizenship to Mack Sennett |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19320325&id=ZoUSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3fQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2954,5607197 |access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> By 1883, when Sennett's brother George was born, Sinnott was working as an innkeeper, a position he held for many years. Sennett's parents had all their children and raised their family in Richmond, then a small [[Eastern Townships]] village. At that time, Sennett's grandparents were living in Danville, Quebec. Sennett moved to [[Connecticut]] when he was 17 years old.<ref name="Spokane Daily Chronicle - March 25th 1932" />

He lived for a while in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]], where, according to his autobiography, he first got the idea to become an opera singer after seeing a [[vaudeville]] show. He said that the most respected lawyer in town, Northampton mayor (and future President of the United States) [[Calvin Coolidge]], as well as Sennett's mother, tried to talk him out of his musical ambitions.<ref name=":4">King of Comedy by Mack Sennett, 1954</ref>

In New York City, he took on the stage name Mack Sennett and became an actor, singer, dancer, [[clown]], [[set designer]], and director for the [[Biograph Company]]. A distinction in his acting career, often overlooked, is that he played [[Sherlock Holmes]] 11 times, albeit as a [[Parody film|parody]], between 1911 and 1913.<ref name="survival1">{{cite web |url=https://www.flickeralley.com/the-survival-of-mack-sennetts-comedies/ |title=The Survival of Mack Sennett's Comedies – Flicker Alley |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=April 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418215351/https://www.flickeralley.com/the-survival-of-mack-sennetts-comedies/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>