This day has
already been forgotten.
Today is the day that our dear friend Fatty Arbuckle was arrested.
The San Francisco police arrest actor and director Fatty Arbuckle on suspicion of manslaughter. Starlet Virginia Rappe had died of a ruptured bladder several days after an alleged sexual assault by the 350-pound Arbuckle at a wild drinking party in San Francisco. Although a jury eventually found Arbuckle not guilty, the scandal destroyed his career.
Born Roscoe Arbuckle in 1887 in Kansas, Arbuckle worked as a plumber's assistant before launching his performing career. After appearing on the vaudeville circuit, Arbuckle--nicknamed Fatty for his generous physique--began appearing in short comedies. He signed with production company Keystone in 1913 and appeared regularly as a Keystone Kop--the bumbling, slapstick police force that were a staple of many Keystone movies between 1914 and the early 1920s. Arbuckle made various other silent comedies with prominent co-stars, including Charlie Chaplin. In 1916, he began writing and directing his own movies, and in 1917 he discovered comedian Buster Keaton, who became one of the most sought-after film comedians of the 1920s and '30s.
Arbuckle's involvement in Rappe's death created the largest scandal in the history of early Hollywood. After two hung juries, Arbuckle was acquitted in 1922, but his films were banned and his career seemed finished. However, in 1925, he began directing again, under the pseudonym William Goodrich, and worked with such stars as Marion Davies and Eddie Cantor. An attempt to rehabilitate his acting career in 1932 through a European tour failed. He died the following year.
We will
always forget.
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