Roscoe Arbuckle
Actor
'New Moon' Star Kristen Stewart 'Fesses Up To Being 'The Luckiest Person In The World'...it comes to the hottest flicks, you'll hear it first. FROM MTV.COM: Dating all the way back to names like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fatty Arbuckle, Shirley Temple and the Little Rascals, it seems like young overnight Hollywood sensations... In this article: Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Lautner, Judy Garland, Johnny Depp, and Mickey Rooney |
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MTV.com | November 12, 2009
Kristen Stewart Insists That Fame Is 'All Good' With Her
BEVERLY HILLS, California - Dating all the way back to names like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fatty Arbuckle, Shirley Temple and the Little Rascals, it seems like young overnight Hollywood sensations have been around for as long as Edward...
In this article: Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Twilight, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, Panic Room, The Twilight Saga, Robert Pattinson, Lindsay Lohan, and Taylor Lautner
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Blogcritics | November 10, 2009
Book Review: Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming, by David Rosen
...treatment. Pocahontas, John Smith, Lord Cornbury, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ward Beecher, Warren G. Harding, Fatty Arbuckle, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and many, many...
In this article: Pocahontas, John Smith, J. Edgar Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Benjamin Franklin, and Eliot Spitzer
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Neatorama | October 23, 2009
Weird Images of Yore: Black and WTF
...over at Black and WTF tumblr blog: Link - Thanks Matt! 9 comments to "Weird Images of Yore: Black and WTF" I find your cover pic alarming. The "big" guy is Fatty Arbuckle. A rapist actor who actually chew parts off of one unfortunate woman.
In this article: Fatty Arbuckle
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AlterNet.org: MediaCulture | October 17, 2009
The 10 Most Notorious Sex Scandals in Hollywood History
...evidence that Rappe had been raped, the Hearst papers flogged the public into a fury. There were calls for Arbuckle's execution, and when he was finally charged with manslaughter, somebody took a shot at his estranged wife as she was entering...
In this article: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Ince, Virginia Rappe, Charles Chaplin, Marion Davies, Charlie Sheen, Roman Polanski, Louella Parsons, and AlterNet
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Conquest Chronicles | October 16, 2009
Notre Dame Football - An Alternative Abridged History
The film school had been founded in 1929, Buster Crabbe and John Wayne were getting into films, the university is in Los Angeles, and Fatty Arbuckle even lived near campus. Why the hell was USC not on the silver screen? Once again, the...
In this article: USC, Notre Dame, Fibonacci, Notre Dame football, Rockne, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, Charlie Weis, Knute Rockne, and Trojans
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Florida-Times Union | October 10, 2009
Local activists speak out for silent film studio
...the city boasted more than 30 motion picture companies making silent films, featuring such stars as Oliver Hardy, Lionel Barrymore and Fatty Arbuckle. Leading the way in Jacksonville's Arlington neighborhood was Norman Studios, bought by...
In this article: Jacksonville, Lionel Barrymore, Oliver Hardy, and Fatty Arbuckle
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thestar.com | October 04, 2009
Off the rack: Entertainment
...contrary to what you see on The Hills, Kristin Cavallari is not a bitch. That constitutes a Hollywood scandal now? Somewhere, Fatty Arbuckle shakes his head sadly. Cover: Kirstie Alley enters the fat farm. They've saved her old room, we'd...
In this article: Kevin Federline, Alex Rodriguez, Jessica Biel, Patrick Swayze, Kirstie Alley, Tori Spelling, Rhode Island, and US
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thestar.com | October 02, 2009
Repulsion
...or producer has been subjected to the prosecution or persecution that Polanski has. My question is, why is he the only one since the Fatty Arbuckle scandal of 1921? How many high-powered Hollywood types do you figure have used their...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Champagne, Errol Flynn, Jack Nicholson, David Letterman, Fatty Arbuckle, All rights reserved, and Vogue
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Guardian Unlimited | September 28, 2009
Back to Hollywood Babylon
...until Cruise sacked her. The luridly visible tip of the iceberg famously includes the 1921 trial of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for rape and murder - he was acquitted, but languished in unemployment and disgrace for almost the rest of his...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Steven Spielberg, Hollywood Babylon, Hollywood, Peter Biskind, Joan Crawford, Tom Cruise, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
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Daily Express | August 27, 2009
Downfall of the decade of decadence
...breathing difficulties, removed some of her clothes. She went into a bathroom, followed by Fatty: the two were alone for 15 minutes, after which Arbuckle emerged to announce Virginia was writhing in pain. She was examined by a doctor, who said...
In this article: Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, F Scott, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, F Scott Fitzgerald, Champagne, Al Capone, Chrysler Corporation, and Virginia
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Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. He was one of the most popular stars of the 1910s, and soon became one of the highest paid signing a contract to make $3 million a year in 1918.
In 1921 Arbuckle threw a party during Labor Day weekend. Bit player Virginia Rappe became ill at the party and died days later. Soon Arbuckle was accused of raping and accidentally killing Rappe, enduring three widely publicized manslaughter trials. His films were banned, his career was ruined, and he was publicly ostracized. Though he was acquitted by a jury and received a written apology, the trial's scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian. Though the ban on his films was eventually lifted, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. In 1932 he began a successful comeback, which he briefly enjoyed before his death in 1933.
- Name At Birth:
- Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle
- Also Known As:
- Fatty Arbuckle, William Goodrich
- Birth Date:
- March 24, 1887
- Birthplace:
- Smith Center, Kansas, United States
- Death Date:
- June 29, 1933
- Place of Death:
- New York, New York, U.S.
- Spouse:
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- Addie Oakley Dukes McPhail (1929-1933)
- Doris Deane (1925-1929)
- Minta Durfee (1908-1925)
- Years Active:
- 1909-1933
- Website:
- http://roscoearbuckle.com
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