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Virginia Rappe (pronounced [ɹʌpeɪ]) (September 19, 1895 - September 9, 1921) was an American silent film actress. She was allegedly raped by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, dying days after the rape, although the details of the event are unclear, due to conflicting eyewitness accounts. Image File history File links VirginiaRappe. ...
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A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
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Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...
Career At age sixteen, she worked as an artist's model. This led, in 1916, to her pursuit of a career in silent film with a small role in a production for the Clara Kimball Young Picture Company run by Lewis J. Selznick. The following year she had a small part in "His Wedding Night", a comedy directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 - October 15, 1960) was a notable highly regarded and publicly popular film actress of the early silent film era. ...
Lewis J. Selznick (May 2, 1870 - January 25, 1933) was a film producer. ...
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...
In 1920, she began working for the production company run by director/producer Henry Lehrman and the two began a relationship that led to their engagement. Never a major star, Virginia Rappe appeared in only eleven films before her life was cut short at the age of twenty-six. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
Charles Chaplin & Henry Lehrman, 1914 Henry Lehrman (April 21, 1886 - November 7, 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director and producer. ...
She was best known in her lifetime as the girl pictured on the sheet music cover of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," a popular song of the era.
Controversial Death The circumstances of Rappe's death in 1921 became a Hollywood scandal and were published widely by the media of the time. The official cause of her death was listed as peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder a few days after attending a September 5th party at a hotel in San Francisco, California hosted by Arbuckle. The interior of bladder. ...
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The exact events of that infamous party are still unclear, with witnesses relating numerous versions of what happened. It was alleged that she died as a result of a violent sexual assault by Fatty Arbuckle. Other rumors circulated that Rappe died of injuries resulting from an earlier botched abortion or complications from gonorrhea. Rape is forced sexual activity. ...
Gonorrhoea (USA spelling: gonorrhea, slang term the clap) is among the most common curable sexually transmitted diseases in the world caused by the Gram-negative bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. ...
After three murder trials, Arbuckle was formally acquitted of any charges, although his reputation and career were permanently ruined.
Arbuckle's case has been examined by scholars and historians over the years and is still speculated about today, although a number of detailed books about this case such as David Yallop's The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story Of Fatty Arbuckle (1976) and Andy Edmonds' Frame Up! The Untold Story Of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (1993) have concluded that Arbuckle was innocent.
Burial Virginia Rappe was buried in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California, adjacent to the north side of Paramount Studios. ...
Timeline Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2417x1785, 1027 KB) Summary Virginia Rappe in the 1920 US Census on Los Angeles. ...
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