rodney@mont-alto.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 26, 5:52 pm, gasolinegus <dondelafie...@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's unbelievable to me that nearly everytime I mention Fatty Arbuckle
in mixed company people always react the same way... with disdain.
I'm taking into consideration of course that most of these people
aren't silent film fans nor are they scholars in film history but I'm
just surprised that everyone knows about the case but no one seems to
know about the outcome. Sad to me. Thoughts?
I find that most people nowadays don't know about Roscoe, and
therefore don't remember that there WAS a scandal. If they watch his
movies without me giving a detailed introduction, they laugh just as
they do for Charley Chase, of whom they also have never heard.
It does simplify everything to show these films without going into too
much detail about the later lives of the actors. It can be easier to
enjoy a film as it was intended to be enjoyed in 1918 if the person
introducing the film doesn't dwell on Roscoe Arbuckle's still-to-come
legal troubles, or the disturbing deaths of a Martha Mansfield or a
Marie Prevost.
My two cents.
Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com
I don't know...Arbuckle's scandal is alive and well on all those trashy
"Access Hollywood" style shows, where they tease audiences with the
"scandalous details" to get them to keep watching until the end, and of
course at the end they finally explain that he was acquitted and so on.
But by then, people have already associated his name with the scandal.
As long as the talentless hangers-on who produce these shows continue to
try making a living off the lives of others, Arbuckle's name will
probably continue to be associated with the scandal.
