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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was a million-dollar-a-year silent film star who rivaled Charlie Chaplin - but his life was destroyed ...
A dark-eyed beauty lies dead. One of America’s biggest movie stars implicated. A politically-ambitious prosecutor. A salacious Hollywood screenplay? No. It was Hollywood in real life. Exactly 100 ...
Emmy-award winning actor Eric Stonestreet has lined up a prestige project to fill his "Modern Family" downtime. Looks like he'll be playing infamous silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle in an HBO movie ...
Labor day -- Journeys: 1887-1908 -- Virginia -- Sanitarium -- Hollywood: 1909-12 -- Postmortem -- Rise: 1913-14 -- The next weekend -- Muddle: 1915-16 -- Indictment ...
Virginia Rappe was a silent film actress who had a prominent role in Paradise Garden in 1917 — but she was just as well known for her sensationalized and mysterious death. Her death marked one of ...
Back in the 1940s, comedian W.C. Fields had this advice for colleagues: “Never work with children or animals.” He knew what he was talking about because kids and critters can steal a scene. Moviegoers ...