History Creator / FattyArbuckle

Three highly sensationalized trials were held, but it was clear that the prosecution really didn't had much of a leg to stand on; mostly infamously, the prosecutor refused to have Delmont, the one who had made the accusation in the first place, testify before the court, as her testimony was simply too disjointed. Although Arbuckle was ultimately acquitted, with the case against him getting torn apart on the stand and the jury even apologizing for the injustice they had done him, the damage was already done. Arbuckle was the Casey Anthony of TheRoaringTwenties, with the public feeling that [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion he was guilty no matter what the court said]]. He had gone over $700,000 in debt due to legal fees, and he lost his house and his cars to pay the debt. He had been blacklisted from the American film industry, with theaters refusing to show his films. MoralGuardians, including then-Postmaster General Will H. Hays[[note]]If that name sounds familiar, it should. Hays would go on to chair the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America the following year; his efforts to "clean up" Hollywood led to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in the early 1930s.[[/note]], declared the Arbuckle case and other contemporary scandals (including a murder case involving former collaborator Mabel Normand) to be proof of the poor standards of morality in Hollywood, and started pushing for increased censorship.

A {{biopic}} about Arbuckle has been stuck in DevelopmentHell for nearly thirty years, and [[http://movies.about.com/od/artschoolconfidential/a/artschool042006_2.htm some]] have suggested that the project is cursed. The first actor they had lined up to play the original "live fat, die young" comic was Creator/JohnBelushi... [[ActorExistenceFailure in 1982]]. Then Creator/JohnCandy was attached to it... in 1994. And then Chris Farley stepped up... in 1997. (The film version of ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'' seems to be condemned to the same fate because those same actors had also been considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly before they died.)

* In John M. Ford's short story "Chain Home Low" (a piece of FanFiction written about ''ComicBook/TheSandman''), Fatty Arbuckle is inspired by a dream to do a film about the victims of the "Sleepy Sickness" (a condition caused by the imprisonment of Morpheus for nearly 70 years). Arbuckle films it under a pseudonym, and in the modern day its considered "a noir classic."

Three highly sensationalized trials were held, and although Arbuckle was ultimately acquitted, with the case against him getting torn apart on the stand and the jury even apologizing for the injustice they had done him, the damage was already done. Arbuckle was the Casey Anthony of TheRoaringTwenties, with the public feeling that [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion he was guilty no matter what the court said]]. He had gone over $700,000 in debt due to legal fees, and he lost his house and his cars to pay the debt. He had been blacklisted from the American film industry, with theaters refusing to show his films. MoralGuardians, including then-Postmaster General Will H. Hays[[note]]If that name sounds familiar, it should. Hays would go on to chair the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America the following year; his efforts to "clean up" Hollywood led to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in the early 1930s.[[/note]], declared the Arbuckle case and other contemporary scandals (including a murder case involving former collaborator Mabel Normand) to be proof of the poor standards of morality in Hollywood, and started pushing for increased censorship.

Arbuckle faded into obscurity afterwards. As ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17201_the-6-most-depressing-imdb-pages.html detailed]], even though the blacklist was ended within a year, he only had small parts in two movies during the rest of the decade, and in 1924 started directing under the pseudonym of William Goodrich. He finally returned to acting in 1931... [[DeathByIrony only to die at a party two years later]]. Creator/BusterKeaton [[UndyingLoyalty always supported]] his friend and regarded him as a major [[TheMentor influence]] on his films.

* The ''Spenser'' novel ''Sixkill'' features a movie star character called Jumbo Nelson who really is the kind of gross lecherous monster Arbuckle was painted as. The questions is, did he really kill the girl?

On the night of September 5, 1921, Arbuckle attended what would become the most fateful party of his life. The morning after, an aspiring young actress named Virginia Rappe suffered a ruptured bladder in one of the hotel rooms that he and his friends had rented for a night of festivities, and died four days later. Before she collapsed, Rappe claimed that "Arbuckle did it" and "He hurt me" during the party. Rappe suffered from chronic cystitis, a condition that flared up whenever she got drunk -- a problem that could not have been helped by her [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl heavy drinking habits]] or the low quality of Prohibition-era booze. In addition, she had gotten several crudely-performed [[BackAlleyDoctor back-alley abortions]] in the past, leaving her reproductive organs in poor shape. There exist two stories about what exactly happened to Rappe at the party:

Arbuckle started a singing career when he was a child, and began working in {{vaudeville}} when he was a teenager. He appeared in his first film in 1909, and started doing regular film work in 1913 after moving to Creator/UniversalPictures. Despite his size, Arbuckle was [[{{Acrofatic}} surprisingly agile and acrobatic]], and his films were known for their fast-paced comedy. One thing that his movies helped to popularize was the PieInTheFace gag -- [[UrExample the first known instance]] of a thrown pie landing in someone's face was in his 1913 short ''A Noise from the Deep''. His comedy proved to be a huge hit -- by 1914, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was offering him and his frequent collaborator Mabel Normand (one of Hollywood's first female writers, producers and directors) an unheard-of contract of $1000 a day, 25% of all profits and ProtectionFromEditors. By 1918, he was getting a 3-year, $3 million contract. In addition to making movies, Arbuckle managed to secure the big breaks of a number of actors whose names have become synonymous with early Hollywood, including Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/BobHope.

* AtTheOperaTonight: In ''That Little Band of Gold'' Fatty takes his wife and his mother-in-law to the opera. He winds up sneaking out and romancing another woman.

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was a silent film star in the 1910s, a pioneering film comedian and one of Hollywood's biggest stars during UsefulNotes/{{The Silent Age|OfHollywood}}. Today, however, he's best known for being the TropeMaker for celebrity scandals, and for being partly responsible for the development of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In the episode "Emperor Joker!", one of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's {{mook}}s is Fatty. Unlike the Joker's other silent-comedian thugs, he's his chubby self rather than hugely overmuscled.

* PieInTheFace: Arbuckle's ''A Noise from the Deep'' (1913) is believed to be the first ever example of this trope, possibly the TropeMaker. TheOtherWiki credits a 1909 Ben Turpin film called ''Mr. Flip'', but notes that the pie in that film was hand-held, not thrown. In any case, Arbuckle would use this trope many, many times in later films.

'''Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle''' was a silent film star in the 1910s, a pioneering film comedian and one of Hollywood's biggest stars during UsefulNotes/{{The Silent Age|OfHollywood}}. Today, however, he's best known for being the TropeMaker for celebrity scandals, and for being partly responsible for the development of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

* ThoseTwoActors: Arbuckle made dozens of films with Mabel Normand (note how many times they are both mentioned in a title). He later made a bunch of movies with an up-and-comer named Creator/BusterKeaton.

Arbuckle started a singing career when he was a child, and began working in {{vaudeville}} when he was a teenager. He appeared in his first film in 1909, and started doing regular film work in 1913 after moving to Creator/UniversalPictures. Despite his size, Arbuckle was [[{{Acrofatic}} surprisingly agile and acrobatic]], and his films were known for their fast-paced comedy. One thing that his movies helped to popularize was the PieInTheFace gag -- [[UrExample the first known instance]] of a thrown pie landing in someone's face was in his 1913 short ''A Noise from the Deep''. His comedy proved to be a huge hit -- by 1914, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was offering him and his frequent collaborator Mabel Normand (one of Hollywood's first female writers, producers and directors) an unheard-of contract of $1000 a day, 25% of all profits and ProtectionFromEditors. By 1918, he was getting a 3-year, $3 million contract. In addition to making movies, Arbuckle managed to secure the big breaks of a number of actors whose names have become synonymous with early Hollywood, including Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton and BobHope.

Arbuckle started a singing career when he was a child, and began working in {{vaudeville}} when he was a teenager. He appeared in his first film in 1909, and started doing regular film work in 1913 after moving to Creator/Universal Pictures. Despite his size, Arbuckle was [[{{Acrofatic}} surprisingly agile and acrobatic]], and his films were known for their fast-paced comedy. One thing that his movies helped to popularize was the PieInTheFace gag -- [[UrExample the first known instance]] of a thrown pie landing in someone's face was in his 1913 short ''A Noise from the Deep''. His comedy proved to be a huge hit -- by 1914, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was offering him and his frequent collaborator Mabel Normand (one of Hollywood's first female writers, producers and directors) an unheard-of contract of $1000 a day, 25% of all profits and ProtectionFromEditors. By 1918, he was getting a 3-year, $3 million contract. In addition to making movies, Arbuckle managed to secure the big breaks of a number of actors whose names have become synonymous with early Hollywood, including Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton and BobHope.

->"Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him... there was not the slightest proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime. He was manly throughout the case and told a straightforward story which we all believe. We wish him success and hope that the American people will take the judgement of fourteen men and women that Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame."

'''Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle''' was a silent film star in the 1910s, a pioneering film comedian and one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the UsefulNotes/The{{Silent Age|OfHollywood}}. Today, however, he's best known for being the TropeMaker for celebrity scandals, and for being partly responsible for the development of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

'''Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle''' was a silent film star in the 1910s, a pioneering film comedian and one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the {{Silent Age|OfHollywood}}. Today, however, he's best known for being the TropeMaker for celebrity scandals, and for being partly responsible for the development of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In the episode "Emperor Joker!", one of the Joker's {{mook}}s is Fatty. Unlike the Joker's other silent-comedian thugs, he's his chubby self rather than hugely overmuscled.

* In John M. Ford's short story "Chain Home Low" (a piece of FanFiction written about ''ComicBook/TheSandman''), Creator/FattyArbuckle is inspired by a dream to do a film about the victims of the "Sleepy Sickness" (a condition caused by the imprisonment of Morpheus for nearly 70 years). Arbuckle films it under a pseudonym, and in the modern day its considered "a noir classic."

A {{biopic}} about Arbuckle has been stuck in DevelopmentHell for nearly thirty years, and [[http://movies.about.com/od/artschoolconfidential/a/artschool042006_2.htm some]] have suggested that the project is cursed. The first actor they had lined up to play the original "live fat, die young" comic was JohnBelushi... [[ActorExistenceFailure in 1982]]. Then John Candy was attached to it... in 1994. And then Chris Farley stepped up... in 1997. (The film version of ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'' seems to be condemned to the same fate because those same actors had also been considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly before they died.)

* ''[[Film/FattysTintypeTangle Fatty's Tintype Tangle]]''

* ''[[Film/FattysTintypeTangle Fatty's Tintype Tangle]]''

Arbuckle started a singing career when he was a child, and began working in {{vaudeville}} when he was a teenager. He appeared in his first film in 1909, and started doing regular film work in 1913 after moving to Creator/Universal Pictures. Despite his size, Arbuckle was [[{{Acrofatic}} surprisingly agile and acrobatic]], and his films were known for their fast-paced comedy. One thing that his movies helped to popularize was the PieInTheFace gag -- [[UrExample the first known instance]] of a thrown pie landing in someone's face was in his 1913 short ''A Noise from the Deep''. His comedy proved to be a huge hit -- by 1914, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was offering him and his frequent collaborator Mabel Normand (one of Hollywood's first female writers, producers and directors) an unheard-of contract of $1000 a day, 25% of all profits and ProtectionFromEditors. By 1918, he was getting a 3-year, $3 million contract. In addition to making movies, Arbuckle managed to secure the big breaks of a number of actors whose names have become synonymous with early Hollywood, including Creator/CharlieChaplin, BusterKeaton and BobHope.

Arbuckle faded into obscurity afterwards. As ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17201_the-6-most-depressing-imdb-pages.html detailed]], even though the blacklist was ended within a year, he only had small parts in two movies during the rest of the decade, and in 1924 started directing under the pseudonym of William Goodrich. He finally returned to acting in 1931... [[DeathByIrony only to die at a party two years later]]. BusterKeaton [[UndyingLoyalty always supported]] his friend and regarded him as a major [[TheMentor influence]] on his films.