"Those who demanded their pound of flesh finally received their satisfaction. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle accommodated them by dying from a broken heart."
Article by Addie McPhail Arbuckle
The famed director ("It's A Wonderful Life","Pocket Full of Miracles"),in his 1971 biography, wrote that Roscoe “had been brutally sacrificed on the altar of hate.”
What did Frank Capra Know?
"He made no attempt to direct this picture. He just sat in his director's chair like a dead man. He had been very nice and sweetly dead ever since the scandal that ruined his career. But it was such an amazing thing for me to come in to make this broken-down picture, and to find my director was the great Roscoe Arbuckle. Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films..."
Actress Louise Brooks
"Child star Jean Darling reminisces about an incident she witnessed involving comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, falsely accused of rape and manslaughter early in the 1920s." Jean starred with Our Gang in the 1920's.
Jean Darling
After Hearst vilified Roscoe in his papers, they met in 1925/26 when Hearst was looking for a director for his film starring Davies (his concubine in "The Red Mill." When Arbuckle met with Hearst, he asked Hearst why he destroyed him. Uncertain if Hearst apologized, but Arbuckle got the job and it became his best film as director William B. Goodrich.
Did Marion Davies intervene for Roscoe?
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