A Century of Tinseltown Banishments
Hollywood Commentary
First, the facts:
Roscoe Conkling “Fatty” Arbuckle was one of the most popular and highly paid actors of the silent film era. On Labor Day in 1921, at the apex of his fame, he hosted a shindig in his hotel suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. It was a wild party and things got out of hand.
There’s lots of lurid speculation about what, exactly, went on at this party, but because people like to read things while they eat their lunch, I’ll leave it to you to Google the words, “Fatty Arbuckle party hotel San Francisco Coke bottle.”