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 | | The story claims the Arbuckles, picnicing on the river, and the Villa men playfully threw fruit at each other across the river, with Roscoe knocking one of Villa's men off his horse with a bunch of bananas, to Villa's own extreme amusement. |
 | | The Arbuckle case was one of three major Paramount-related scandals (the other two being the murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922 and the drug-related death of actordirector Wallace Reid in 1923) that rocked Hollywood and led to calls for reform of the "indecency" being promoted by motion pictures. |
 | | Ironically, one of the very few of Arbuckle's feature-length films known to survive,, had been one of two finished films Paramount held back from release at the time the scandal broke; while it was eventually released in Europe after the acquittal, it was never theatrically released in the United States. |
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