The Day the Laughter Stopped : the True Story of Fatty Arbuckle / by David A. Yallop ; Filmography Samuel A. Gill

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 348 pages; Description: viii, 348 p. , [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933 -- Biography. The sad story of how one of the top comics in the silent movies, he could throw a pie like no one else, he Was the Keystone Kops, he Was Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle. He was also the scapegoat for the ills and depravity of Hollywood, and charged with the rape and death of a film actress in a week long party in the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, acquitted, but blackballed for the sins of Hollywood. With an all star cast of Hollywood of it's day, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William Randolph Hearst, Buster Keaton, Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Will Hays, etc., and the heads of the studios. A fascinating look at Hollywood, illustrated with photographs, the endpapers are a drawing of Roscoe 'Fatty"" Arbuckle's Suite in the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, a Filmography of his films, and a bibliography for further study.