Oliver Hardy: Influenced By Arbuckle? "Certainly Oliver Hardy would have become aware of 'Fatty' Arbuckle as a Keystone regular by late 1913. His boyish charm, his agility and the dynamism that belied his girth could not fail to have excited young Ollie. To still be smarting over the nickname 'Fatty' Hardy, and to see a young man who flaunted the epithet of 'Fatty' become so successful in the medium he had grown to love was to see an image of his future." Excerpted from "Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy" by Simon Louvish

	The Genesis of the "Little Tramp" Costume "[Chaplin's] tramp costume, which was to be little modified in its twenty-two-year career, was apparently created almost spontaneously, without premeditation. The legend is that it was concocted one rainy afternoon in the communal male dressing room at Keystone, where Chaplin borrowed Fatty Arbuckle's voluminous trousers, tiny Charles Avery's jacket, Ford Sterling's size fourteen shoes which he was obliged to wear on the wrong feet to keep them from falling off, a too-small derby belonging to Arbuckle's father-in-law, and a moustache intended for Mack Swain's use, which he trimmed to toothbrush size." Excerpted from "Chaplin: His Life and Art" by David Robinson