FRAME-UP! The Untold Story of Roscoe

Hardback. 1st US edn.He was the hot new favourite of the silver screen - he was called "The Balloonatic" and "The Prince of Whales". In 1921 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was the highest paid film comedian of the day. He had 3 films in the can, was happily married, and was at the peak of his success. Yet, today, many people remember him only as a purported rapist. What they do not know is that the truth of his story has remained untold for 70yrs. and that he was completely innocent. The author reopens the case and recreates California's glittering Roaring Twenties and presents completely new, "lost", suppressed, and heretofore-unrevealed evidence to determine what really happened behind the scenes at Fatty's infamous party. A fascinating look at the make-believe world of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford, as well as Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, America's funniest man, for whom it all became dead real. Illus., Filmography, and Index. 335pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.