Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Rotund motion picture actor and director (1887-1933). In 1921, at the peak of his fame, Arbuckle was accused of complicity in the death of actress Virginia Rappe after a wild party. He was acquitted of manslaughter, but the scandal ruined his career. ALS signed “Roscoe,” two pages, 7.75 x 10.25, September 13, 1924. Letter to his wife Minta, referred to here as “Minty.” In part: “Speaking of literature, I just finished reading a book by Emile Zola, entitled ‘L’Assommoir,’ of all the morbid, filthy, dirty, smelly books I ever read, it is the worst. Marie would love it. But speaking seriously, there is absolutely no excuse for a person writing a book like that. It’s as bad as the play - The Lullaby, which Torrence Reed played last year. No doubt it gave her great opportunity to show her power and ability as an actress but as entertainment it was the Cats’ Pe-culiar. I will get The Fall of the Roman Empire when I return home. I would certainly delight to read about something that fell harder than I did…Give the Major my regards and tell Marie the chafing season is over thank God. My talcum bills are enormous during the summer. I don’t have Prickly Heat anymore though and I didn’t cut it off either.” Double matted and framed with a portrait of Arbuckle, to an overall size of 31.5 x 17.5. In fine condition, with intersecting folds, some toning to the top of the first page, a corner crease to the second page, and a small filing hole to the top of each page. The disgraced comedian sent this message to his wife during a brief marital reconciliation, as a divorce had been granted to Minta Arbuckle in January 1924. She would re-file for divorce three months after receiving this letter. Any ill will on the actor’s part is absent here. With his films no longer available to audiences and Arbuckle no longer wanted by studios, this letter offers a glimpse into this life in the 1920s—one that appears to have been filled with literature as it was by depression and frequent drinking. By the early 1930s the American public—now battling a Great Depression of its own—rediscovered Arbuckle, where affectionate crowds laughed and applauded. His comeback was short-lived, however, as the stress of the past decade and his continued reliance upon alcohol undoubted contributed to his fatal 1933 heart attack. Oversized.
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