Editing Roscoe Arbuckle (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:RoscoeArbuckleRet.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Arbuckle reading ''[[La Vie Parisienne (magazine)|La Vie Parisienne]],'' {{circa}}&nbsp;1920]]
[[Neil Sedaka]] refers to Arbuckle, along with [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Buster Keaton]], [[Stan Laurel]], and [[Oliver Hardy]] in his 1971 song "Silent Movies", as heard on his ''[[Emergence (Neil Sedaka album)|Emergence]]'' album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genius.com/Neil-sedaka-silent-movies-lyrics|title=Neil Sedaka – Silent Movies|access-date=June 19, 2023|website=Genius.com}}</ref>

The [[James Ivory]] film ''[[The Wild Party (1975 film)|The Wild Party]]'' (1975) has been repeatedly but incorrectly cited as a film dramatization of the Arbuckle–Rappe scandal. In fact it is loosely based on the 1926 poem by [[Joseph Moncure March]].<ref name=Long>{{cite book |last=Long |first=Robert Emmet |title=James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies |year= 2006 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520249998 |page=126}}</ref> In this film, [[James Coco]] portrays a heavy-set silent film comedian named Jolly Grimm whose career is on the skids, but who is desperately planning a comeback. [[Raquel Welch]] portrays his mistress, who ultimately goads him into shooting her. This film was loosely based on the misconceptions surrounding the Arbuckle scandal, yet it bears almost no resemblance to the documented facts of the case.<ref name=Mayo>{{cite book |last=Mayo |first=Mike |title=American Murder: Criminals, Crimes and the Media |year= 2008 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1578591916 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEoU2kOb0OIC&q=arbuckle |access-date=January 30, 2015}}</ref>

In [[Ken Russell]]'s 1977 biopic ''[[Valentino (1977 film)|Valentino]]'', [[Rudolph Nureyev]] as a pre-movie star [[Rudolph Valentino]] dances in a nightclub before a grossly overweight, obnoxious, and hedonistic celebrity called "Mr. Fatty" (played by [[William Hootkins]]), a caricature of Arbuckle rooted in the public view of him created in popular press coverage of the Rappe rape trial. In the scene, Valentino picks up starlet [[Jean Acker]] (played by [[Carol Kane]]) off a table in which she is sitting in front of Fatty and dances with her, enraging the spoiled star, who becomes [[Apoplexy|apoplectic]].<ref name="Valentino 1977">{{cite web |title=Valentino. 1977. Rudolph Nureyev Dances |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnLXaeHk6gM |publisher=YouTube |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711154837/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnLXaeHk6gM |archive-date=July 11, 2015 |access-date=October 9, 2023}}</ref> 

Australian band [[The Fauves (band)|The Fauves]]'s 1993 debut album ''[[Drive Through Charisma]]'' ends with a song called "Arbuckle at Glenrowan", which imagines Arbuckle visiting the town of [[Glenrowan, Victoria]] where bushranger [[Ned Kelly]] was captured in the year 1880.<ref>[https://fauvespodcast.com/podcast/episode-48-arbuckle-at-glenrowan/ Episode 48: Arbuckle At Glenrowan - Fauves Are The Best People]</ref>

Before his death in 1997, comedian [[Chris Farley]] expressed interest in starring as Arbuckle in a biography film. According to the 2008 biography ''The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts'', Farley and screenwriter [[David Mamet]] agreed to work together on what would have been Farley's first dramatic role.<ref name=Farley>{{cite book |last1=Farley |first1=Tom |last2=Colby |first2=Tanner |title=The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts |year= 2008 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1616804589 |page=262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVgSPlmvkt4C&q=arbuckle+mamet |access-date=January 30, 2015}}</ref> In 2007, director [[Kevin Connor (director)|Kevin Connor]] planned a film, ''The Life of the Party'', based on Arbuckle's life. It was to star [[Chris Kattan]] and [[Preston Lacy]].<ref name=King>{{cite news |last=King |first=Susan |title=Screening Room |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-gd-moviesscreen15-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 15, 2007 |access-date=January 30, 2015}}</ref> However, the project was shelved.<ref name=Schanie>{{cite book |last=Schanie |first=Andrew |title=Movie Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Film Industry |url=https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Confidential-Scandal-Murder-Industry-ebook/dp/B004V3THVK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422671563&sr=1-1&keywords=Movie+Confidential%3A+Sex%2C+Scandal%2C+Murder+and+Mayhem+in+the+Film+Industry.#reader_B004V3THVK |year=2010 |publisher=Clerisy Press |isbn=978-1578603541 |page=19}}</ref> Like Farley, comedians [[John Belushi]] and [[John Candy]] also considered playing Arbuckle, but each of them died before a biopic was made. Farley's film was signed with [[Vince Vaughn]] as his co-star.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bovsun|first=Mara|title=Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, acquitted for murder of Virginia Rappe in 1922, never recovered from all the bad press|date=September 1, 2012|newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/roscoe-fatty-arbuckle-acquitted-murder-virginia-rappe-1922-recovered-bad-press-article-1.1149824|access-date=August 12, 2015}}</ref>

In April and May 2006, the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City mounted a 56-film, month-long retrospective of all of Arbuckle's known surviving work, running the entire series twice.<ref name=Moma>{{cite web |title=Rediscovering Roscoe: The Careers of "Fatty" Arbuckle |url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/910 |publisher=moma.org}}</ref>

Arbuckle is the subject of a 2004 novel titled ''[[I, Fatty]]'' by author [[Jerry Stahl]]. ''The Day the Laughter Stopped'' by David Yallop and ''Frame-Up! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle'' by Andy Edmonds are other books on Arbuckle's life.<ref name=Paulus>{{cite book |title=Slapstick Comedy |year= 2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415801799 |page=86 |editor1-last=Paulus |editor1-first=Tom |editor2-last=King |editor2-first=Rob}}</ref> The 1963 novel ''Scandal in Eden'' by Garet Rogers<ref>{{cite book |last=Rogers |first=Garet |title=Scandal in Eden |publisher=Dial Press |date=1963| url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/garet-rogers-3/gandal-in-eden/ |access-date=May 15, 2015}}</ref> is a fictionalized version of the Arbuckle scandal.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}

[[Fatty Arbuckle's]] was an American-themed restaurant chain in the UK named after Arbuckle.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-10-23|title=This idea is a fat lot of good|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/this-idea-is-a-fat-lot-of-good-1365499.html|access-date=2021-02-24|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>

The 2009 novel ''Devil's Garden'' is based on the Arbuckle trials. The main character in the story is [[Dashiell Hammett]], a [[Pinkerton (detective agency)|Pinkerton]] detective in San Francisco at the time of the trials.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Atkins|first=Ace|url=https://worldcat.org/title/897026982|title=Devil's Garden|year=2013|publisher=Little, Brown Book |isbn=978-1-472-10348-2|oclc=897026982}}</ref>

[[NOFX]]'s 2012 album ''[[Self Entitled]]'' has a song called "I, Fatty" about Arbuckle.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://digboston.com/interview-fat-mike-of-nofx/|title = Interview: Fat Mike of NOFX|journal=Boston News Today|date = November 27, 2013}}</ref>

The 2021 French graphic novel ''Fatty : le premier roi d'Hollywood'', by Nadar and Julien Frey, portrays the period from Arbuckle's early days in Hollywood to his death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fatty : le premier roi d'Hollywood |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58823889-fatty |website=Goodreads.com |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>

The character Orville Pickwick is based on Arbuckle in [[Damien Chazelle]]'s 2022 film ''[[Babylon (2022 film)|Babylon]]'', played by Troy Metcalf. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Laptad |first=Emily |date=2023-01-24 |title=Missouri Actor Stars in Damien Chazelle's Babylon Film Alongside Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie |url=https://www.inkansascity.com/arts-entertainment/arts/missouri-actor-stars-in-damien-chazelles-babylon-film-alongside-brad-pitt-and-margot-robbie/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=IN Kansas City Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

In ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'''s Season 12 Episode 8, "The Colostomy Bag," [[Larry David]] in discussion with [[Conan O'Brien]] claims that Arbuckle attacked a stranger with a beer bottle after being spoken to in public.{{fact|date=April 2024}}

During the third season of ''[[Hacks_(TV_series)|Hacks]]'', a biopic about Arbuckle becomes a central part of the plot starting with episode 7, "The Deborah Vance Christmas Spectacular." In the episode, [[Christopher Lloyd]] plays a fictional grandson of Arbuckle's (in real life Arbuckle had no children).