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movies about the scandal
posted by scoobSTAFFMOD on April 29, 2017 at 1:41 PM
apparently there was a movie loosely based on the scandal that essentially destroyed his career. i believe it has the word "girl" in the title but i cannot remember much else. can anyone help?
Reply by genplant29
on April 29, 2017 at 4:22 PM
I don't personally know the answer to your question, but just looked over the Fatty Arbuckle Wikipedia article, and the following (passage quoted directly from Wikipedia) sounds most likely to be the movie you're referring to:
....The James Ivory film The Wild Party (1975) has been repeatedly but incorrectly cited as a film dramatization of the Arbuckle–Rappe scandal....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....