FP Series #718 - Fatty Arbuckle Traditional Cache
Hidden : 12/8/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Seven Hundred Eighteen in the Famous People (FP) Series - Fatty Arbuckle
Born in Smith Center, Kansas, Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) weighed in excess of 13 lbs at birth. When he was 12 his father, who had always treated him harshly, now refused to support him and Arbuckle got work doing odd jobs in a hotel. Arbuckle began his screen career with Keystone in 1913 as an extra for $3 a day, working his way up through the acting ranks to become a lead player and director.

Arbuckle was fond of the famous "pie in the face", a comedy cliché that has come to symbolize silent-film-era comedy itself. The earliest known use of this gag was in the June 1913 Keystone one-reeler A Noise from the Deep, starring Arbuckle and frequent screen partner Mabel Normand.

In 1914, Paramount Pictures made the then-unheard of offer of US$1,000-a-day plus 25% of all profits and complete artistic control to make movies with Arbuckle and Normand. The movies were so lucrative and popular that in 1918 they offered Arbuckle a three-year, $3 million contract.

In September 1921, Arbuckle attended a party at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco during the Labor Day weekend. Bit player Virginia Rappe became drunk and ill at the party; she died four days later at a sanitarium known for performing abortions. Arbuckle was accused by a well-known madam of raping and accidentally killing Rappe. Arbuckle endured three widely publicized trials for manslaughter. His films were subsequently banned and he was publicly ostracized.

Though he was acquitted in the third trial and received a written apology from the jury, the trial's scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy. Though the ban on his films was lifted within less than a year, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. He died in his sleep of a heart attack, aged 46, in 1933.

This preform soda bottle tube was originally placed further down the trail as a replacement container, but then the original was found, so now it replaces TeamOxford's cache called Fatty Rotten Wheel.

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