Editing Roscoe Arbuckle (section)

==Career==
[[File:Mabel Normand 009.JPG|thumb|upright|Frequent co-star [[Mabel Normand]]]]
In 1904, [[Sid Grauman]] invited Arbuckle to sing in his new Unique Theater in [[San Francisco]], beginning a long friendship between the two.<ref name=History>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfcityguides.org/public_guidelines.html?article=200&submitted=TRUE&srch_text=&submitted2=&topic=Movies |title=Grauman's Theaters |last=Saperstein |first=Susan |publisher=San Jose, California Guides |access-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HBhKAAAAIBAJ&pg=744,1086129&dq=grauman&hl=en |title=She Must Use 7 Mirrors |date=January 31, 1905 |work=The Evening News |access-date=January 30, 2015 |page=3}}</ref> He then joined the [[Alexander Pantages|Pantages Theatre Group]] touring the West Coast and in 1906 played the Orpheum Theater in [[Portland, Oregon]], in a vaudeville troupe organized by [[Leon Errol]]. Arbuckle became the main act and the group took their show on tour.<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |title=Dies in His Sleep. Film Comedian, Central Figure in Coast Tragedy in 1921, Long Barred From Screen. On Eve of his Comeback. Succumbs at 46 After He and Wife Had Celebrated Their First Wedding Anniversary. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/30/archives/dies-in-his-sleep-film-comedian-central-figure-in-coast-tragedy-in.html |quote=Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, film comedian, died of a heart attack at 3 o'clock ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born at Smith Centre, Kansas, on March 24, 1887. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 30, 1933 |access-date=January 30, 2015 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

On August 6, 1908, Arbuckle married [[Minta Durfee]] (1889–1975), the daughter of Charles Warren Durfee and Flora Adkins. Durfee starred in many early comedy films, often with Arbuckle.<ref name=Durfee>{{cite news |title=Minta Durfee, actress, 85, Dies; Former Wife of Fatty Arbuckle |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C11FA3D5B157493C0A81782D85F418785F9 |quote=Minta Durfee, the actress who was married to Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle and became Charlie Chaplin's first motionpicture leading lady, died Tuesday in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles suburb. |work=The New York Times |date=September 12, 1975 |access-date=January 30, 2015 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=DelOlmo>{{cite news |first=Frank |last=Del Olmo |title=Fatty Arbuckle's First Wife Dies |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/679361712.html?dids=679361712:679361712&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+11%2C+1975&author=FRANK+DEL+OLMO&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Fatty+Arbuckle%27s+First+Wife+Dies&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927160448/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/679361712.html?dids=679361712:679361712&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+11%2C+1975&author=FRANK+DEL+OLMO&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Fatty+Arbuckle%27s+First+Wife+Dies&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2008 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 12, 1975 |access-date=July 3, 2008}}</ref> As a couple, they appeared mismatched, as Minta was short and petite while Arbuckle tipped the scales at 300&nbsp;lbs (136 kg).<ref name="Ellis"/> Arbuckle then joined the Morosco Burbank Stock vaudeville company and went on a tour of [[Qing dynasty|China]] and [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], returning in early 1909.<ref name="Taylor">{{cite journal |last=Long |first=Bruce |date=April 1995 |title=Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle |journal=Taylorology |url=http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor28.txt |access-date=January 30, 2015}}</ref>

Arbuckle began his film career with the [[Selig Polyscope Company]] in July 1909 when he appeared in ''[[Ben's Kid]]''. He appeared sporadically in Selig one-reelers until 1913, moved briefly to [[Universal Pictures]], and became a star in producer-director [[Mack Sennett]]'s ''[[Keystone Cops]]'' comedies.{{refn|group=n|However, according to the Motion Picture Studio Directory for 1919 and 1921, Arbuckle began his screen career with Keystone in 1913 as an extra for $3 a day (equivalent to approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|3|1913|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}), working his way up through the acting ranks to become a lead player and director).}} Although his large size was undoubtedly part of his comedic appeal, Arbuckle was self-conscious about his weight and refused to use it to get "cheap" laughs like getting stuck in a doorway or chair.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

Arbuckle was a talented singer. After famed operatic tenor [[Enrico Caruso]] heard him sing, he urged the comedian to "give up this nonsense you do for a living, with training you could become the second greatest singer in the world."<ref name=Nichols>{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Peter M. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E7DA1531F930A25757C0A9679C8B63 |title=Home Video: Arbuckle Shorts, Fresh and Frisky |work=The New York Times |date=April 13, 2001 |access-date=January 30, 2015}}</ref>