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	Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at Classic Movie Stars
		Roscoe, one of nine children, was the baby of the family who weighed a reported 16 pounds at birth.
		Roscoe was a gentle and genteel man off screen and always believed that Sennett never thought that he was funny.
		Roscoe had thrown a party which was crashed by a disreputable starlet named Virginia Rappe who fell seriously ill and died a few days later.
	www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/Fatty.html (812 words)

	Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arbuckle truly shines when the stories are more structured, as in "The Knockout," in which he becomes a boxer.
		Arbuckle and Chaplin costar again in the delightful short "The Rounders," the first in the set that allows Arbuckle to play a more sophisticated character, who goes on a bender with his pal Chaplin.
		And in one of the set's best features, "Love," Arbuckle pays suit to the daughter of a nearby farmer, and she desperately wants to marry him: but father will have none of it, because another suitor is offering half of his property for the girl.
	www.classicsondvd.com /fattyarbuckle.htm (1060 words)

	Rogue Cinema - Legends of Silent Film: Roscoe ''Fatty'' Arbuckle - By James L. Neibaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arbuckle was an amazing performer and had a real understanding as to how he could most effectively present a character in the movies.
		In assessments of Arbuckle, it is easy to stumble into what is perhaps the greatest cliche in the analyses of slapstick comedy, and that is to state that an overweight performer shows a ballet-like grace and to marvel at his or her agility.
		Roscoe would often put the Fatty character in embarrassing situations, and while Roscoe is no longer playing Fatty and is not directing this feature (it was directed by James Cruze), he is certainly adept at playing the role.
	www.roguecinema.com /article554.html (4647 words)

	Fatty Arbuckle @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 - January 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian who gained the nickname "Fatty" from his portly frame and who is best known for his involvement in the "Fatty Arbuckle scandal".
		Roscoe Arbuckle's career is seen by many film historians as one of the great tragedies of Hollywood.
		The Arbuckle case was one of three major scandals that rocked Hollywood, and led to calls for reform of the "indecency" being promoted by motion pictures.
	www.filmbug.com /db/4217 (371 words)

	The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Movie: The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle DVD is available ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At 266 pounds, it was no surprise that Roscoe Arbuckle gained the nickname "Fatty." What is surprising, however, is that while he directed or acted in 200 films, his name never went down in history like some of his contemporaries.
		A friend and colleague of Charlie Chaplin, and a mentor to Buster Keaton, Arbuckle enjoyed a highly fruitful career as an actor and director until he was banned by Hollywood for the supposed rape and murder of a young girl.
		Arbuckle would never recover fully from the scandal, and his career would never be the same.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/689076963527IE?associate=122129 (290 words)

	Call Me Fatty! A Tribute to Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle
		It was this quality which led to his downfall, after he had struggled from poverty to a fame in which the children throughout the world worshipped him.
		Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of the most innovative and talented film comedians of all time.
		Hollywood friends were supportive, but the motion picture industry wasn't, and to get work, Arbuckle used a pseudonym and stayed behind the scenes as a director and gag writer for the rest of the 1920s.
	www.callmefatty.com (439 words)

	Bio of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Roscoe Conkling Arbucke was born on March 24, 1887 in Smith Center, Kansas.
		Roscoe Arbuckle was found not guilty of manslaughter.
		Roscoe Arbuckle died of a heart attack on June 29, 1933.
	www.2020site.org /fattyarbuckle/bio.html (794 words)

	Musical Numbers
		Roscoe's ex-wife, Minta surprises Roscoe after the show, and the two remember the breakdown of their marriage with wistful amusement.
		Roscoe's ex-wife Minta returns to her husband's side at his time of need, and he laments his reversal of fortune.(That's a Laugh)
		With the trial nearing it's conclusion, Roscoe takes advantage of the Thanksgiving recess to throw a dinner party, and Zukor is his guest of honor.
	sethevans.net /roscoe/music.htm (521 words)

	Fatty Arbuckle \| Biography (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle) (1887-1933)
		By the mid-teens Arbuckle was a full fledged director and writer of his own and other comics films.
		On September 17 Roscoe Arbuckle was arraigned in San Francisco charged with the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe.
		That Arbuckle is usually conceived as a minor figure stands as testament to the power of the vendetta directed at him.
	www.leninimports.com /fatty_arbuckle.html (1209 words)

	Once beloved, then reviled. Now a novelist with an affinity for 'Fatty' gives him his due.
		Arbuckle already had a heroin problem -- the result of a quack who prescribed it for a pesky carbuncle -- but the loss of career and the stain of false accusations were the real reasons for his early death.
		Arbuckle, who weighed up to 350 pounds at his heaviest, was an even more unlikely candidate for stardom.
		Arbuckle was never found guilty but, in fact, endured three trials and was acquitted in the third.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/04/DDGKI81MH51.DTL (1450 words)

	© Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle - Silent Comedian - goldensilents.com
		Roscoe was a gentle and sensitive man off-screen and always believed that Sennett did not think he was funny.
		Roscoe was married three times, the first time to actress Minta Durfee from 1909-1925, who stood by him during his later legal troubles, and then to actress Doris Deane from 1925 to 1928, then to actress Addie McPhail from 1932 until his death in 1933.
		Roscoe had thrown a party which was crashed by a disreputable bit player named Virginia Rappe.
	www.goldensilents.com /comedy/roscoefattyarbuckle.html (835 words)

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		Keaton and Arbuckle became close friends, a bond that would never break, even after Arbuckle was embroiled in the scandal that cost him his career and his personal life.
		Roscoe Arbuckle was born in Kansas on March 24, 1887.
		When Roscoe Arbuckle is remembered at all any more, it's in connection with the scandalous death of Virginia Rappe in 1921, which destroyed his career and reputation as one of America's leading comedians.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/roscoefatty-arbuckle.html (734 words)

	Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle Rape Trial Scandal & Rappe
		By 1921 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of the highest paid actor/directors in the motion picture business.
		Arbuckle's wife stuck by him throughout the trial --- such was the public's scorn that she was shot at while entering the courthouse --- but the producers in Hollywood forbade his movie friends to testify on his behalf fearing that their careers would be besmirched and that the scandal would cut into profits.
		Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle and the rape trial of the Hollywood star.
	www.geocities.com /timmlimm/fatty.htm (621 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Roscoe Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887 in Smith Center, Kansas, one of five children all living in extreme poverty.
		William Goodrich Arbuckle was a hard-drinking and luckless wheat farmer who in drunken rages blamed Roscoe for the ill health of his mother and took his anger for his financial situation out on Roscoe and the family.
		Roscoe was painfully shy mostly because of the treatment he received from his father and his hefty size.
	hometown.aol.com /_ht_a/bookviewzine/issue135.html (3792 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film & Media \| 2006 \| Rediscovering Roscoe: The Careers of “Fatty” ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This retrospective covering the complete arc of his career provides an opportunity to not only appreciate Arbuckle as an immensely likeable performer but also to discover his neglected work behind the camera as gag writer and director during his exile, as well as his return to the screen in the sound era.
		Arbuckle seen from his debut at Keystone to the retooling of his comedic skills for a comeback in sound films.
		Having reached the heights of popularity, Arbuckle was free to explore facets of his "Fatty" character—even appearing in drag as a rich heiress.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2006/Fatty_Arbuckle.html (898 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection
		After Arbuckle's acquittal, the Hays Office officially banned all his comedies, removed his existing films from circulation, and barred the comedian from ever acting again.
		So not only does Arbuckle's legacy get a chance to cavort in the sun again, but Keaton's fans can witness their hero trying out ideas that he would later expand to death-defying (I really mean that) degrees once he was captaining his own films.
		It was a time in which he, as Arbuckle later said, "lived in the camera." Their films together are becoming more inventive, less Sennett-like, as Keaton takes on more creative control of what's happening both in front of and behind the camera.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/bestarbucklekeaton.shtml (4323 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection: DVD: Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle,Buster Keaton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Roscoe is captured and put in a cabin which is blown up by dynamite (then saved when he, as director, runs the film backward).
		While showcasing the formidable slapstick talents of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as director and star, this 12-title compilation is also a remarkable study of Buster Keaton's rapid evolution as a silent comedy master.
		Some people don't find Roscoe's films funny or that well-aged because he doesn't really have an established screen persona and because some of his shorts jump around in terms of setting and plot without seeming rhyme or reason, and while I don't agree with them, that is a valid criticism.
	www.amazon.com /Best-Arbuckle-Keaton-Collection/dp/B00006IUIU (2836 words)

	Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle: Silent Screen Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was one of the leading comedic film stars of the silent era and one of the most recognizable personalities in the world......until tragedy struck.
		She died later that week at the hospital of a ruptured spleen and Arbuckle was arrested for her murder.
		After three trials Arbuckle was finally acquitted, but the damage to his career had already been done.
	www.2020site.org /fattyarbuckle (341 words)

	The Cook and Other Treasures (2003): Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd - PopMatters Film Review
		In 1921, the career of silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle came to a crashing halt when he was falsely charged with manslaughter in the death of an aspiring actress.
		Arbuckle is in the kitchen preparing the food orders, which waiter Keaton is continuously shouting to him from the dining room.
		The girl and her boyfriend are also in the audience and, in a matter of minutes, he and Arbuckle pick up where they left off in the park.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/cook-and-other-treasures.shtml (1205 words)

	Roscoe Arbuckle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rappe's companion to the party, Maude Delmont, implicated Arbuckle over his involvement in the matter, claiming that he'd crushed Rappe's innards while raping her.
		Ironically, one of the very few of Arbuckle's feature-length films known to survive, Leap Year, 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 nor in Britain.
		Many of Arbuckle's films, including the feature Life of the Party, survive only as a print with foreign-language inter-titles; Life of the Party was released before the scandal, but no effort was made to preserve the original English-language prints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle (1788 words)

	All about Fatty Arbuckle and the Death of Virginia Rappe, by Denise Noe
		One of the reasons the elder Arbuckle suspected he had not sired the boy was that Roscoe was so heavy while both his parents were slender.
		Since Roscoe’s mother was a devout, pious Christian, the suspicion was probably unfounded but it did not change the fact that Arbuckle grew up in an environment of mistrust.
		Roscoe could sing beautifully and was remarkably limber and agile despite his size.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/classics/fatty_arbuckle (1422 words)

	Gerald Peary - essays - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
		Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the butterball silent comedian who rivaled Charlie Chaplin in popularity, may have done terrible sexual things to actress Virginia Rappe the night of September 5, 1921, resulting in her death.
		Recently, Kino Video has remastered two volumes of Arbuckle's 1917-1920 two-reel shorts, which he directed and starred in for Paramount Pictures, and all of which co-star his pal, Buster Keaton.
		Arbuckle is a nimble talent, comfortable with his 266-pound rhino frame, whether chasing a young sweet thing, doing somersaults, or prancing about in drag.
	www.geraldpeary.com /essays/abc/arbuckle.html (235 words)

	Roscoe Arbuckle Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Best remembered today for the scandal that ended his career (and the life of a promising actress), Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was a comic star in his own right, nearly the equal in popularity of Chaplin and Keaton in the late 1910s.
		At the height of his fame in 1921, when he was reportedly earning $1,000 a day, Arbuckle was charged with the death of a young actress named Virginia Rappe at a San Francisco party.
		The tabloid press alleged he had raped her, but Rappe probably died from bleeding ulcers (Arbuckle may indeed have been guilty of criminal negligence in not obtaining medical aid for her).
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/186225 (713 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (1913-1932) - Printable
		It was the salacious newspaper articles, however, that stuck in the memories of America, and that's what Arbuckle's legacy has primarily consisted of for over eighty years, thanks to the Hays Office's fllist and the failure of anyone to preserve his work except incidentally as a result of co-starring with Chaplin or Keaton.
		Although Arbuckle frequently played the country bumpkin or bourgeois husband in his films, he stretched somewhat in Fatty's New Role (1915) to portray a down-on-his-luck hobo, capturing a lot of the pathos that Chaplin generated with the evolution of the Little Tramp.
		One of only three Arbuckle features known to survive, it was shot before the infamous Labor Day weekend of 1921, and as a result of that exercise in yellow journalism was never released in the United States.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=7306 (1904 words)

	Arbuckle collection
		Roscoe Arbuckle, affectionately known to the world as "Fatty" Arbuckle, was probably Sennett's first major discovery and it was Arbuckle who took the Keystones to the next level in comedy development after Sennett got it started.
		Roscoe is next cast as a boxer who must fight Edgar Kennedy, the Keystone Cops and a troublesome referee played by Charlie Chaplin in
		The advent of talkies brought Arbuckle out of retirement and he made a series of short subjects in sound much to the delight of the depression era audiences.
	www.a-1video.com /arbuckle.htm (1550 words)

	Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had an interesting and varied career as a vaudeville monologist, musical comedy star, and silent film comedian, writer, director, and producer.
		Much of the material in the book comes from exclusive sources, such as the tape-recorded memoirs of Arbuckle's first wife and the author's recent, lengthy correspondence with the comedian's third wife and widow.
		Also included are two interviews with Arbuckle from 1916 and 1931, and a 1931 article about the path of his career after his scandal.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/YRA/.aspx (311 words)

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