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The Importance of Gender in Good Night Nurse
Arbuckle was at such an early stage that just being funny on screen was enough to give you reputation rather than necessarily needing a continuity of here is the classically defined Arbuckle leading role. But I do think that to some extent, Arbuckle's persona was maybe more malleable than Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin come and all have such clearly defined. This is what my movie star persona is. He's very gender bending. And there's a lot about this in the book too. Like he wore drag wonderfully. When he became Miss Fatty, he just, it was, there was no misogyny in it at all.