That’s what police called the Labor Day shindig on the 12th floor of San Francisco’s St. Francis hotel, on Sept. 5, 1921. There was bootlegged booze galore and actors and actresses lounging or ...

Fatty Arbuckle’s scandal rocked early Hollywood, with three trials, media frenzy and a legacy still debated today. Here's a ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had the ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

Today we continue with the ruination of Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, circa 1921. His stage name was Fatty Arbuckle, and he was a big, graceful actor with acrobatic ingenuity and a befuddled charm that ...

A recent posting on Smithsonian‘s history blog Past Imperfect, The Skinny on the Fatty Arbuckle Trial, discusses at length the murder case that helped ruin the comedian’s career. Since his films ...

Long before modern celebrity scandals played instantly on social media, one of Hollywood’s earliest and most explosive controversies made newspaper headlines across the country. At the center of it ...