The Butcher Boy
1917
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Sep 9, 2020 · One of the first mass media cases of this terrible abuse centered on the once-popular film star Fatty Arbuckle and what happened during a wild party on Labor Day of 1921. Roscoe Conkling...
Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at San Francisco 's St. Francis Hotel in September 1921, and died four days later.
Sep 3, 2011 · In 1921, movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attended a party at which an actress died, sparking Hollywood's first major scandal. The mystery remains.
While the Fatty Arbuckle scandal drew attention to some of the more seedy parts of Hollywood, it was one of a few scandals that forced Hollywood executives to turn on the offensive to self-regulate and present a more wholesome image to the rest of the world.
Nov 8, 2011 · On April 12, 1922, the jury acquitted Arbuckle of manslaughter after deliberating for just five minutes—four of which were used to prepare a statement: Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe...
Jul 21, 2019 · Newspapers went wild with the story: popular silent-screen comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had killed Virginia Rappe with his weight while savagely raping her. Though the newspapers of the day reveled in the gory, rumored details, juries found little evidence that Arbuckle was in any way connected with her death.
Oct 4, 2021 · A hundred years ago, on the Saturday before Labor Day, Roscoe Arbuckle drove his plum-colored Pierce-Arrow to San Francisco for a weekend of partying.
Aug 16, 2022 · The scandal shook Hollywood and its fans, but Weinstein wasn't the first man in the movie industry to spark a scandal. By 1914, Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, lovingly called "Fatty" due to his...
Mar 1, 2007 · The star was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, perhaps the first film actor to be paid an annual salary of $1 million, an amazing sum in the silent film industry. Insisting he had done nothing wrong,...
May 26, 2023 · Her death marked one of Hollywood’s first scandals when one of its biggest stars Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was charged in connection to it. Just that year he was paid $3 million by Paramount Pictures to star in more movies.
