This show offers giddy fun but not a thorough biography of silent-screen comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, whose career was ruined when a chorus girl died in his hotel room. That scandal is fodder for ...

Labor day -- Journeys: 1887-1908 -- Virginia -- Sanitarium -- Hollywood: 1909-12 -- Postmortem -- Rise: 1913-14 -- The next weekend -- Muddle: 1915-16 -- Indictment ...

One is known for his deadpan genius as the star and auteur of such silent-film triumphs as “The Navigator,” “Sherlock Jr.” and “The General.” The other is remembered, if at all, for a scandal that ...

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, photographed between 1920 and 1925. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs/ George Grantham Bain Collection) One hundred years ago, Arkansans gaped as a bright star of ...

A leader in the film industry reached out to the Humboldt Standard in early 1923 to laud the newspaper for its appreciation for the “unbiased attitude” the paper took in an editorial on the actor ...

Around 100 years ago nowhere near Duluth, one of Hollywood’s best-paid stars had just opened the film “Crazy to Marry” when his headlines shifted from the silent comedy to real-life tragedy. On the ...