Editing Roscoe Arbuckle (section)

==Brief comeback and death==
In 1932, Arbuckle signed a contract with [[Warner Bros.]] to star under his own name in a series of six two-reel comedies to be filmed at the [[Vitaphone]] studios in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. These six short films constitute the only samples of Arbuckle's voice, which recorded in a pleasant second-tenor range. Silent-film comedian [[Al St. John]] (Arbuckle's nephew) and actors [[Lionel Stander]] and [[Shemp Howard]] appeared with Arbuckle. The film ''[[How've You Bean?]]'' features grocery-store gags reminiscent of Arbuckle's 1917 short ''[[The Butcher Boy (1917 film)|The Butcher Boy]]'', with vaudeville comic Fritz Hubert as his assistant, dressed like Buster Keaton. The Vitaphone shorts were very successful in the U.S.,<ref name=oderman/> although when Warner Bros. attempted to release the first one (''[[Hey, Pop!]]'') in the United Kingdom, the [[British Board of Film Classification|British Board of Film Censors]] cited the ten-year-old scandal and refused to grant an exhibition certificate.<ref>{{cite book |last=Liebman |first=Roy |title=From Silents To Sound: A Biographical Encyclopedia Of Performers Who Made the Transition To Talking Pictures |year=1998 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786403820 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWtZAAAAMAAJ&q=arbuckle |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

On June 28, 1933, Arbuckle had finished filming ''[[In the Dough]]'', the last of the Vitaphone two-reelers (four of which had already been released). The next day, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. to star in a feature-length film.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9OVPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6814,663514&dq=virginia+rappe&hl=en |title=Arbuckle, Star Film Comedian, Dies in Sleep |date=July 1, 1933 |work=[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]] |access-date=January 30, 2015 |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> That night, he met with friends to celebrate his first wedding anniversary and the new contract when he reportedly said: "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a [[heart attack]] later that night and died in his sleep<ref name="nytimes1"/> at the age of 46. His widow Addie requested that his body be [[cremation|cremated]] according to Arbuckle's wish.<ref>{{cite book |title=Crimes and Trials of the Century: From the Black Sox scandal to the Attica prison riots, Volume 1 |year= 2007 |publisher=Glenwood |isbn=978-0313341106 |page=69 |editor1-last=Chermak |editor1-first=Steven M. |editor2-last=Bailey |editor2-first=Frankie Y.}}</ref>