The Fatty Arbuckle Trials (1921-22):
 Selected Links & Bibliography
by Douglas O. Linder


Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle: 1921 Mugshots
Born: 3/24/1877
Birthplace: Smith Center, Kansas

LINKS:

Fatty Arbuckle-Virginai Rappe Trial: Q & A with Researcher Joan Myers (Alt Film Guide, Apr. 14, 2007)
http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/fatty-arbuckle-virginia-rappe-trial-scandal/

Taylorology (Contemporary Accounts of Arbuckle's Career and Trial)
http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor28.txt

Roscoe Arbuckle (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle

Filmography of Arbuckle (Internet Movie Database)
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000779/

The Trial of Fatty Arbuckle (Ralph)
http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html

Fatty's Dilemma (Video: Trial Re-enactment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFcMteODMw&feature=related


Virginia Rappe (about 1920), the alleged rape victim


Additional Reading:

Edmonds, Andy.  Frame-Up! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.  Wm. Morrow & Co, 1991.

Grant, Robert and Katz, Joseph, The Great Trials of the Twenties: The Watershed Decade in America's Courtrooms.  De Capo Press, 1998.

Guild, Leo.  The Fatty Arbuckle Case: The Hollywood Story No One Dared Publish.  Paperback Library, 1962.

Oderman, Stuart.  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1877-1933.  McFarlabd & Co., 2005.

Yallop, David.  The Day the Laughter Stopped.  St. Martin's Press, 1976.




Video:

The Trial of Fatty Arbuckle.  Court TV, Greatest Trials of All-Time.

Fatty Arbuckle.  A & E.,  2000.