Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was always large, weighing 14 pounds at birth. So much larger was he than his other eight siblings that his father questioned his paternity. When Arbuckle’s mom died in 1899, 12-year-old Arbuckle was abandoned by his father to fend for himself.

While working in the kitchen of a hotel, he caught the attention of a local performer who took him to amateur night at a local theater. Arbuckle won and David Grauman recruited him as a singer and dancer in Vaudeville.
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Dominique Dunne seemed to have it all – beauty, talent, and a famous, loving, affluent family to back her up. Her father Dominick was a producer, her brother Griffin was an actor, and her mother Ellen was a socialite.

Dominique spent the year after high school in Florence , but returned to the U.S. to study drama at Colorado State University . However, before completing her degree, she left to try her hand at acting. She quickly landed television roles on shows such as “Lou Grant,” “Hart to Hart,” “Fame,” “CHiPs,” and “Hill Street Blues.” However, it was her role as Dana Freeling in the 1982 horror Poltergeist that garnered her her biggest success.
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