Editing Roscoe Arbuckle (section)

==William Goodrich pseudonym==
Eventually, Arbuckle worked as a director under the [[pseudonym]] of William Goodrich, his father's first and middle name. Keaton, a frequent [[pun]]ster, later claimed that the name was derived from the satirical alias "Will B. Good".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Buster Keaton Interviews|last=Sweeney|first=Kevin W.|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2007|isbn=978-1578069637|location=Jackson|pages=192–193}}</ref>

Between 1924 and 1932, Arbuckle directed a number of comedy shorts under the pseudonym for [[Educational Pictures]] that featured lesser-known comics of the day. [[Louise Brooks]], who played the [[ingenue]] in ''[[Windy Riley Goes Hollywood]]'' (1931), told of her experiences working with Arbuckle:

<blockquote>He made no attempt to direct this picture. He just sat in his director's chair like a dead man. He had been very nice and sweetly dead ever since the scandal that ruined his career. But it was such an amazing thing for me to come in to make this broken-down picture, and to find my director was the great Roscoe Arbuckle. Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer—a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge doughnut—really delightful.<ref name="Hearst"/></blockquote>

Among the more visible directorial projects under the Goodrich pseudonym was the [[Eddie Cantor]] feature ''[[Special Delivery (1927 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1927), which was released by [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] and costarred [[William Powell]] and [[Jobyna Ralston]]. His highest-profile project was arguably ''[[The Red Mill (film)|The Red Mill]]'', also released in 1927, a [[Marion Davies]] vehicle.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} In 1930 he served as an uncredited gag writer for the [[Wheeler and Woolsey]] military comedy ''[[Half Shot at Sunrise]]''.