Behind the Laughter With Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand

Before Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, The Marx Brothers and Our Gang, there was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. While both did many very good films without the other, they had a chemistry with each other that was perfect. The early short comedies with the two of them are among my favorite movies from the Keystone Studio. That is why I was so happy to find the following 1916 article from Picture Play Magazine discussing the making of these films. If you have any trouble reading any of the following pages click on them and use your touch screen to zoom in.  


































-Michael J. Ruhland