Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (3)

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (24 de marzo de 1887-29 de junio de 1933), fue un actor cómico estadounidense del cine mudo. Adoptó el apodo de Fatty, "Gordito" en inglés, a pesar de que dicho apodo sólo lo usó profesionalmente, ya que lo detestaba. Arbuckle fue uno de los actores más populares de su época, aunque hoy es más conocido por "El escándalo Fatty Arbuckle": fue acusado de violar y provocar la muerte a la actriz Virginia Rappe, y sus juicios se convirtieron en unos de los primeros "juicios-espectáculo" de Hollywood.

Primeros años
Apareció esporádicamente en cortos de un rollo de Selig hasta 1913, y, después de una breve estancia en Universal, se convertiría en una de las estrellas de los Keystones Kops, del director-productor Mack Sennett.

Con el impulso de Sennet, Arbuckle alcanzó el estrellato con la serie de comedias Fatty and Mabel, donde hacía pareja con Mabel Normand, esposa de Sennett. En 1916 Arbuckle era una estrella tan conocida como Charles Chaplin, y la Paramount le ofreció el control total de sus películas, además de crear la Comique Film Corporation exclusivamente para él, acontecimiento único en la industria de la época.

A pesar de su gordura, Arbuckle era sorprendentemente ágil y gozaba de un gran dominio de su físico. Sus comedias son conocidas por su rapidez y dinamismo, llenas de escenas de persecuciones y muchos gags visuales. Arbuckle estaba particularmente encariñado con el momento llamado pastel en la cara, un cliché de la historia de la comedia muda.

Arbuckle proporcionó a Buster Keaton su primer papel en la industria del cine, con el corto de 1917 The Butcher Boy. Ambos cómicos forjaron una estrecha amistad, que no flaqueó cuando Arbuckle fue duramente golpeado por la tragedia, y la subsiguiente depresión y decadencia que vendrían después.

El escándalo Arbuckle
En la cima de su carrera, Arbuckle fue contratado por los estudios Paramount a cambio de cobrar un millón de dólares al año, el mayor sueldo jamás pagado por un estudio hasta entonces. El 3 de septiembre de 1921, Arbuckle se tomó un descanso de su prolífica y vertiginosa producción fílmica, y se desplazó hasta San Francisco con sus amigos Lowell Sherman y Fred Fischbach. Se registraron en el hotel Saint Francis, dispuestos a dar una fiesta, para la cual invitaron a varias mujeres a su habitación. Durante el evento, una de ellas, una aspirante a actriz, de 30 años, llamada Virginia Rappe, cayó gravemente enferma y fue examinada por el doctor del hotel, que dictaminó que, probablemente, la mujer simplemente estaba borracha.

Rappe cayó en coma y murió tres días más tarde en el hospital de peritonitis, causada por perforación de la vejiga. Maude Delmont, amiga y compañera de Rappe en la fiesta, implicó a Arbuckle en el suceso, denunciando que la ruptura de vejiga se produjo mientras el actor violaba a Rappe con una botella. Arbuckle, seguro de su inocencia, rechazó tales acusaciones.

El juicio se convirtió en un acontecimiento nacional y ocupaba las portadas de los periódicos, especialmente de los pertenecientes al imperio de William Randolph Hearst, que no dudaban en presentar en sus crónicas al actor como culpable, haciendo juicios anticipados y predisponiendo a mucha gente a prejuzgar a Arbuckle. Después de dos juicios nulos, el 12 de abril de 1922 Arbuckle fue declarado no culpable de la muerte de Virginia Rappe.

A pesar de que Arbuckle fue absuelto de las acusaciones, se destruyó la carrera y la vida personal del artista, cayendo en el alcoholismo. La Oficina Hays, organismo que controlaba y/o censuraba toda la producción cinematográfica, retiró y prohibió todas las películas de Arbuckle.

Arbuckle también dirigió algunos de los cortometrajes menos conocidos de Educational Pictures, bajo el seudónino de William Goodrich. wiki

Director (133 credits)
1932 It's a Cinch (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Niagara Falls (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Gigolettes (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Hollywood Lights (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Mother's Holiday (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Hollywood Luck (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Bridge Wives (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Anybody's Goat (as William Goodrich)
1932 Keep Laughing (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1932 Moonlight and Cactus (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Smart Work (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Idle Roomers (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 The Tamale Vendor (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Once a Hero (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Queenie of Hollywood (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 One Quiet Night (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 That's My Meat (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Take 'em and Shake 'em (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Beach Pajamas (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Up Pops the Duke (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Honeymoon Trio (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 That's My Line (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 The Lure of Hollywood (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 The Back Page (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Crashing Hollywood (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Ex-Plumber (Short)
1931 Pete and Repeat (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Marriage Rows (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1931 Three Hollywood Girls (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1930 Up a Tree (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1930 Won by a Neck (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1930 Si Si Senor (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1927 Special Delivery (as William Goodrich)
1927 Peaceful Oscar (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1927 The Red Mill (as William Goodrich)
1926 One Sunday Morning (Short)
1926 His Private Life (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1926 Fool's Luck (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1926 Home Cured (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1926 My Stars (Short) (uncredited)
1925 The Fighting Dude (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 Cleaning Up (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 The Movies (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 The Tourist (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 Curses! (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 The Iron Mule (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1925 Dynamite Doggie (Short) (uncredited)
1924 Lovemania (Short) (uncredited)
1924 Stupid, But Brave (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1924 His First Car (Short) (as William Goodrich)
1924 Leap Year (uncredited)
1922 Special Delivery (Short) (uncredited)
1920 The Garage (Short)
1919 The Hayseed (Short)
1919 Keaton entre bastidores (Short)
1919 A Desert Hero (Short)
1919 The Bank Clerk (Short)
1919 Love (Short) (uncredited)
1919 The Pullman Porter (Short)
1919 Camping Out (Short)
1918 A Scrap of Paper (Short)
1918 The Sheriff (Short)
1918 The Cook (Short)
1918 Buenas noches, enfermera (Short)
1918 Moonshine (Short)
1918 El botones (The Bell Boy) (Short)
1918 Out West (Short)
1917 A Country Hero (Short)
1917 Coney Island (Short) (uncredited)
1917 Oh Doctor! (Short)
1917 His Wedding Night (Short)
1917 The Rough House (Short)
1917 A Reckless Romeo (Short)
1917 Fatty carnicero (Short)
1916 A Creampuff Romance (Short)
1916 The Waiters' Ball (Short) (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
1916 The Moonshiners (Short)
1916 His Wife's Mistakes (Short)
1916 Bright Lights (Short)
1916 He Did and He Didn't (Short)
1916 Fatty and Mabel Adrift (Short)
1915 Fatty and the Broadway Stars (Short)
1915 A Village Scandal (Short)
1915 Fickle Fatty's Fall (Short)
1915 Fatty's Tintype Tangle (Short)
1915 Fatty's Plucky Pup (Short)
1915 Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (Short)
1915 Mabel's Wilful Way (Short)
1915 Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (Documentary short)
1915 Wished on Mabel (Short)
1915 When Love Took Wings (Short)
1915 Fatty's Faithful Fido (Short)
1915 That Little Band of Gold (Short)
1915 Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (Short)
1915 Fatty's Reckless Fling (Short)
1915 Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (Short) (uncredited)
1915 Fatty's New Role (Short)
1915 Mabel, Fatty and the Law (Short) (uncredited)
1915 Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (Short) (uncredited)
1915 Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (Short) (uncredited)
1915 Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Magic Pants (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Shotguns That Kick (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Leading Lizzie Astray (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Wine Party (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Jonah Day (Short)
1914 An Incompetent Hero (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Lovers' Post Office (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Zip, the Dodger (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Their Ups and Downs (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty Again (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Debut (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Lover's Luck (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Bombs and Bangs (Short) (uncredited)
1914 A Brand New Hero (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Gift (Short)
1914 Those Country Kids (Short) (uncredited)
1914 That Minstrel Man (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Those Happy Days (Short) (uncredited)
1914 The Sky Pirate (Short) (uncredited)
1914 A Rowboat Romance (Short)
1914 Love and Bullets (Short) (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914 Fatty's Finish (Short) (uncredited)
1914 Fatty and the Heiress (Short) (uncredited)
1914 The Alarm (Short)
1914 The Water Dog (Short)
1914 A Suspended Ordeal (Short)
1914 Where Hazel Met the Villain (Short)
1914 A Bath House Beauty (Short)
1914 Chicken Chaser (Short)
1914 Barnyard Flirtations
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Enlaces completados:
OK Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1914)
OK Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty's Faithful Fido (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty's New Role (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty's Plucky Pup (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty's Reckless Fling (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Fatty's Tintype Tangle (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK He Did and He Didn't (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1916)
OK His Wife's Mistakes (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1916)
OK Leading Lizzie Astray (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1914
OK Love (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1919)
OK Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Mabel's Wilful Way (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK That Little Band of Gold (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK The Bell Boy (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, 1918)
OK The Red Mill (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, 1927)
OK When Love Took Wings (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)
OK Wished on Mabel (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1915)

OK Fatty Arbuckle Shorts Collection

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