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| Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. | Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. | ||
| - | He wrote and starred in the musical film //[[Tarvunian]] Follies of 1925//, which featured Tarvuist jazz songs and skits, and comic dramatizations of episodes from [[Tarvu]]'s life, in which the Lord (played by Arbuckle) is depicted in blackface. The film is credited with converting president Calvin Coolidge to [[Tarvuism]] - an ironic fact given that Arbuckle himself was a Poseidonist, worshipping the Greek god of the sea. | + | He wrote and starred in the musical film //[[Tarvunian]] Follies of 1925//, which featured [[Tarvuist]] jazz songs and skits, and comic dramatizations of episodes from [[Tarvu]]'s life, in which the Lord (played by Arbuckle) is depicted in blackface. The film is credited with converting president Calvin Coolidge to [[Tarvuism]] - an ironic fact given that Arbuckle himself was a Poseidonist, worshipping the Greek god of the sea. |
| Arbuckle committed suicide by eating a half-hundredweight of glazier's putty. | Arbuckle committed suicide by eating a half-hundredweight of glazier's putty. | ||
