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L0st_in_the_Stars OP t1_j6g6hsx wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. by L0st_in_the_Stars

You're repeating 100+ year old tabloid lies about him. The jury that found Arbuckle not guilty of manslaughter connected with the death of Virginia Rappe issued the following statement after the verdict:

"Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him. We feel also that it was only our plain duty to give him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime.

He was manly throughout the case, and told a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed.

The happening at the hotel was an unfortunate affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible.

We wish him success.…Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame."

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hipshotguppy t1_j6gvt8s wrote

He was found not guilty at the third trial where the last witness backed down from telling what Virginia Rappe had told her in the hospital, "Roscoe hurt me." There were originally five of these witnesses in the first trial but they all got paid off/convinced not to testify. Hollywood protected Arbuckle, because of course they had to, but he never worked there again.

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Front_Judge_5872 t1_j6gxokt wrote

Did you do some research? Are you sticking with that story? If “Hollywood” was protecting him it would have been during the first trial. If your story were true “Hollywood” would have written him off before a third trial.

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