Ten years ago, famed Funnyman Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty'') Arbuckle was tried for manslaughter after being found in a rumpled hotel room with the corpse of an obscure cinemactress named Virginia Rappe. He was acquitted. But, because many suspicious persons thought he might have caused the death of Cinemactress Rappe by attacking her, perhaps with a beer bottle, no cinema producers dared antagonize their audiences by hiring Funnyman Arbuckle. Funnyman Arbuckle tried a vaudeville tour, a Hollywood nightclub. When the nightclub failed, he got a job...
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