相手にパイを投げつける行為、いわゆる「パイ投げ」をハリウッドで早い時期に試みた人物の一人である。その映画は1913年の『A Noise from the Deep』で、メーベル・ノーマンドとの共演作品。多くのアーバックル作品で「パイ投げ」の芸達者ぶりを観ることができる（しかしながら、現存する作品自体あまり多くない）。
“SHERLOCK JR.”(英語).Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.2024年9月13日閲覧。“The rumored participation of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle in a directorial capacity during the making of Sherlock Jr. has become part of cinema lore, and has long been a matter of keen discussion among Keaton scholars and researchers. Thanks to the recollections of people involved (including Keaton), observers, and items in the contemporary press and trade magazines, we know that Arbuckle probably worked on the film early in its production. Due to his 1921 scandal and trials (he was eventually acquitted, with a formal apology by the jury), Arbuckle’s starring film career had come to a halt.Things started to pick up when he signed a contract with the Pantages Circuit for an extensive year-long vaudeville tour, and also began anonymously producing and directing a series of comedy two-reelers featuring Poodles Hanneford and Al St. John. These were shot on the Keaton lot (Sherlock Jr.’s movie theatre interior turns up in the Al St. John comedy Never Again).
Almost a century later one would need Holmes himself to piece together the clues. Sherlock Jr. was in production at the beginning of 1924, but Arbuckle was certainly busy with other projects, although he may have contributed gags from time to time. Arbuckle reportedly left the film because things weren’t working out – stories include him being temperamental on the set, not getting along with leading lady Kathryn McGuire, and matriarch Peg Talmadge (Keaton’s mother-in-law) making a fuss about him being there in the first place.”
“Roscoe Arbuckle | Silent Film Star, Comedian & Director | Britannica”(英語).www.britannica.com(2024年8月13日).2024年9月18日閲覧。“Throughout the 1920s and early ’30s, Arbuckle found work as a film director using the pseudonym William Goodrich (his father’s name) and enjoyed modest success in vaudeville and as co-owner of a popular California nightclub.”
“The sexual assault case that shocked Hollywood almost a century ago”(英語).PBS News(2020年9月9日).2024年9月18日閲覧。“Arbuckle began working behind the camera, occasionally directing films under the name of William B. Goodrich (or Will B. Good). In 1932, he made a screen comeback by doing a series of “two-reeler” comic films for Warner Brothers.”
admin(2019年11月17日).“Comedy’s Greatest Era | by James Agee”(英語).Scraps from the loft.2024年8月10日閲覧。“In 1949, the film critic James Agee published his influential essay “Comedy's Greatest Era,” in which he recounts the golden years of silent comedy and proclaims that the genre’s “four most eminent masters” were Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon”
Keaton,Buster(1960).My wonderful world of slapstick.Media History Digital Library.Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc..p.158.http://archive.org/details/mywonderfulworld00bust."After her death, everyone in Hollywood who knew Virginia was surprised to read newspaper descriptions of her as a frail little flower, a starlet whom death had robbed of the chance to achieve the heights on the silver screen. The truth is that Virginia was a bigboned, husky young woman, five feet seven inches tall, who weighed 135 pounds. She was about as virtuous as most of the other untalented young women who had been knocking around Hollywood for years, picking up small parts any way they could."
