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Mac Estelle was born in Boston, Massachusetts To Robert J. Madden and Linda E. Madden(Moreno), both of Brookline, Massachusetts. One of six children, h e started in "Show Biz" so to speak in community theater and performed on stage and backstage as well. He studied many years of tap dancing at the Leon Collins School of Dance and classical russian style ballet in the Nicolai Legat system mainly under the teaching and guidance of the master dancer and teacher, David Drummond.
A lover of early cinema from early childhood, making movies was one of the obvious paths to take. From the age of about 10, his goal was to be an actor in horror films. Somewhere along the line comedy took over and he began doing whatever it took to get laughs. Mac attributes so many years studying all the great comedians and comediennes, such as Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Burns and Allen and the list goes on, as the best education a performer could have.
He then discovered the great silent film comedians, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Joe Rock and Harold Lloyd and many others as his inspiration in making his own silent film comedies.
A lover of early cinema from early childhood, making movies was one of the obvious paths to take. From the age of about 10, his goal was to be an actor in horror films. Somewhere along the line comedy took over and he began doing whatever it took to get laughs. Mac attributes so many years studying all the great comedians and comediennes, such as Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Burns and Allen and the list goes on, as the best education a performer could have.
He then discovered the great silent film comedians, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Joe Rock and Harold Lloyd and many others as his inspiration in making his own silent film comedies.
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Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
importance of 20 minutes of love
10 April 2006 - 3 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
hello. 20 minutes of love is very important as it was chaplins first time directing. for that reason alone is enough to make it historic. true, it is not classic chaplin. true, it is not a great comedy. not even for that era. but if you think that chaplin could, as he said something to the effect of give me a park, a pretty girl, and a cop and i can make a movie. well that is what he did. i feel it is so interesting to be able to watch is film acting and directing in it's infancy, and see how he progressed through the years. not many artists work can be seen in such an early stage as chaplins. i think i'll go watch it now. mac estelle
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