William Powell, 1930s.
“History has treated Roscoe Arbuckle shabbily. He is remembered as a rapist and murderer—the most tragic of ironies for a man who ran out of his dressing room at a nude girl’s intrusion—but the facts proved, even to his jury, that he was innocent. Roscoe Arbuckle was just what he seemed to be on the screen—a fat boy who never grew up; a person of the greatest simplicity, warmth, and generosity; a man who liked everyone and liked to be liked.”
-Keaton by Rudi Blesh