LAist: LAistory: Fatty Arbuckle

msmerymac

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:21:24 -0800

Great article! Part of my master's thesis is about the Hays Code in Hollywood, which resulted partially from the Fatty Arbuckle scandal (as well as a few others in the late 20s/early 30s). Definitely something I'm interested in!

Mike G

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:39:26 -0800

The botched abortion was put out there by the defense, physicians testified that there had been no such event at the time, and it's time their 80-year-old smears against the victim were put to rest. A modern researcher (online name "Frederica") talks about what we really know about what happened here: http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?p=9135#9135

Tladatsi

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:03:23 -0800

I have seen a number of his movies, he was indeed a very funny fellow. This fellow could flip a pancake and make rolls dance. He did a couple of shorts which a Charlie Chaplin (with Fatty getting top billing) that were pretty funny. One they end up drunk and passed out in a boat in Echo Park Lake. They are worth checking out.

BingosDingo

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:44:47 -0800

Ah. William Randolph Hearst. The Faux Snooze of the his day. No career was safe, no story too far-fetched, no lie unprintable. His only aim to sell papers no matter whose reputation he had to destroy to do it. A true man of honor.

Jacy Young

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:30:24 -0800

Thanks, LA Map Nerd! My source material had it misspelled. I remember making note of it. I'll make the change.

LA MapNerd

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:15:46 -0800

Very nicely done. One note, though: that's Matthew-with-two-Ts Brady, the San Francisco DA, who prosecuted Arbuckle. Mathew-with-one-T Brady is the famous Civil War-era photographer. [And, just to be completist, Matthew Brady the San Francisco DA should also not be confused with Matthew Harrison Brady, the (fictional) prosecuting attorney in Lawrence & Lee's Inherit The Wind, a character based on William Jennings Bryan in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial.]