From "The 1920s Channel" on youtube. Video about 13 minutes.
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Arbuckle was the proverbial jolly fatman and a big star. In 1921, he was prosecuted for causing the the death of starlet Virginia Rappe during a party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The tabloid press implied that the 350 lb. "Fatty" crushed Rappe during sex, rupturing her bladder. The jury found him not guilty, and apologized to Roscoe at the end of his 3rd trial. But his career never recovered, and he was often depressed. Louise Brooks, who was in a film with Arbuckle in 1931, said he was morose and acted like a "dead man", not good for a comic actor. But before he died in 1933, Arbuckle had a good movie offer from Warner Bros. and died "a happy man" thinking his career was on the upswing according to his wife. He was only 46.
Arbuckle rescues a child from a rabid dog at great risk to himself in 1927. Witnessed by child actress Jean Darling, a member of the "Our Gang" silents in the late 1920s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thDGF1_iQGc&t=71s[/YOUTUBE]
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