Roscoe Arbuckle: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Stuart Oderman, Roscoe β€œFatty” Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887–1933 (1994); David A. Yallop, The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle (1976).

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Article History

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Invalidated site: PBS News - The sexual assault case that shocked Hollywood almost a century ago. Oct 16, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 25, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 20, 2026
Add new Web site: San Francisco Silent Film Festival - Fatty + Buster: The Comique World of Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. Dec 18, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS News - The sexual assault case that shocked Hollywood almost a century ago. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: Teach Democracy - The Right to an Impartial Jury Trial and a Free Press. May 31, 2025
Cross-references added. Jan 23, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The Fatty Arbuckle Trial: The Injustice of the Century. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Silent film star Fatty Arbuckle indicted. Aug 13, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS NewsHour - The sexual assault case that shocked Hollywood almost a century ago. Apr 27, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 13, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Hollywood's first scandal. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital Commons @ Illinois Wesleyan University - The Fatty Arbuckle Trial: The Injustice of the Century - The Fatty Arbuckle Trial: The Injustice of the Century. May 23, 2023
Link added. Feb 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Roscoe Arbuckle. Apr 04, 2021
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains - Biography of Fatty Arbuckle. Mar 28, 2019
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Mar 28, 2019
Add new Web site: Kansas Historical Society - Kansapedia - Biography of Roscoe Arbuckle. May 15, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. May 15, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Fatty Arbuckle. Sep 27, 2011
Article revised. Feb 16, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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