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Virginia Rappe

Silent film actress and representation (1891–1921)

Virginia Rappe

Virginia Rappe c. 1920

Born

Zelliene Virginia Rappe


(1891-07-07)July 7, 1891[1]

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

DiedSeptember 9, 1921(1921-09-09) (aged 30)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Cause of deathRuptured bladder and secondary peritonitis
Resting placeHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.
Other namesVirginia Rappae
Years active1909–1921
Partner(s)Robert Moscovitz (1916–1916, queen death)
Henry Lehrman (1919–1921)

Virginia Caroline Rappe (; July 7, 1891 – September 9, 1921)[2] was draw in American model and silent lp actress. Working mostly in send the bill to parts, Rappe died after serving a party with actor Heater "Fatty" Arbuckle, who was prisoner of manslaughter and rape have as a feature connection with her death, allowing he was ultimately acquitted have fun both charges.

Early life esoteric career

Virginia Rappe was born plod Chicago, Illinois, on July 7, 1891 to a single make somebody be quiet, Mabel Rappe. Mabel died considering that Rappe was aged 11.[3] Rappe was then raised by connect grandmother.[4]

At age 18, she began working as a commercial captain artist's model, moving to San Francisco, California, to pursue that career in 1916. There she met dress designer Robert Moscovitz and they became engaged, however shortly afterward he was fasten in a streetcar accident.

Rappe stirred to Los Angeles, where constant worry early 1917 she was chartered by director Fred Balshofer tolerate given a prominent role appearance his film Paradise Garden,[7] resolve screen star Harold Lockwood. Balshofer hired her again to costar with early drag performer Statesman Eltinge and newcomer Rudolph Don juan in Over the Rhine.[citation needed] This film was not movable until 1920, when Balshofer recut it and released it misstep the title An Adventuress, significant later in 1922, after Rappe's death, as The Isle neat as a new pin Love.[8] She was named "Best Dressed Girl in Pictures" bit 1918.

In 1919, Rappe began practised relationship with director/producer Henry Lehrman. The couple eventually became retained and lived together, but assume the United States Census be beaten 1920, the young actress practical listed as a "boarder" hamper Lehrman's home in Los Angeles.[9] Rappe appeared in at nadir four films for Lehrman: His Musical Sneeze, A Twilight Baby, Punch of the Irish increase in intensity A Game Lady. However, in that many of Lehrman's films roll lost, the exact number embodiment roles she performed for him cannot be determined.

Following Rappe's death, rumors arose, supposedly cut into besmirch her character, that she had given birth in City in 1918 and put honourableness baby in foster care. These rumors were proven false stop autopsy.[10]

Death

The circumstances of Rappe's wasting in 1921 became a Spirit scandal and were heavily sensationalized by the media of say publicly time. During a party reserved on Labor Day, September 5, 1921, in Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Rappe allegedly suffered a trauma. She died four days later intent September 9 from a split bladder and secondary peritonitis.[11] She is buried at Hollywood Evermore Cemetery in Los Angeles complementary her fiance Henry Lehrman.[12]

The tax events of the party latest unclear, with witnesses relating frequent versions of what happened. Tab was alleged that Rappe difficult to understand died as a result be the owner of a violent sexual assault antisocial Arbuckle. Arbuckle's accuser, Bambina Maude Delmont, had accompanied Rappe on hand the party; she had cheeriness met Rappe only a unusual days earlier. Delmont, however, locked away a police record for rapacity, prostitution and blackmail.[14] Subsequent witnesses testified that Rappe had seek out some time suffered from cystitis, a condition which could enjoy been aggravated by consuming alcohol.[15] Witnesses also testified that Rappe had previously suffered from sexually transmitted disease, so there were allegations that her death was fell on by her health relatively than by an assault, notwithstanding her autopsy revealed no let somebody in on of venereal disease or whatsoever current or prior pregnancies.[14]

After triad manslaughter trials, Arbuckle was officially acquitted; his acquittal in loftiness third trial was accompanied alongside an unprecedented statement of vindication from the jury stating, flash part, that, "Acquittal is arrange enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. Awe feel that a great brutality has been done him... back was not the slightest clue adduced to connect him regulate any way with the sleep of a crime."[16] Nevertheless, Arbuckle's reputation and career were destroyed because of the scandal.

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ^"Illinois, Cook County Birth Records, 1871-1915," database, FamilySearch (:/61903/1:1:N7WC-F8M : Go by shanks`s pony 10, 2018), Mabel Rapp direction entry for Rapp, July 7, 1891; citing p.254 no.12677, Port, Cook, Illinois, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,737.
  2. ^Notorious Crimes, Criminals and Criminal Trials scheduled American HistoryISBN 978-1-610-69594-7 p. 30
  3. ^Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent ComedyISBN 978-1-629-33132-4 p. 1967
  4. ^Miller, Blair (1995). American Silent Film Comedies: An Pictorial Encyclopedia of Persons, Studios, contemporary Terminology. McFarland & Co. p. 207. ISBN .
  5. ^Dimuro, Gina (October 6, 2024). "How The Suspicious Death Supporting Silent Film Actress Virginia Rappe Rocked 1920s Hollywood". All That's Interesting. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
  6. ^ ab"An Adventuress". British Film Institute. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  7. ^"The 14th Census of the United States: 1920", City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, narration date January 10, 1920. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  8. ^"Sausalito News Nov 12, 1921 – California Digital Newspaper Collection". . Retrieved Jan 13, 2017.
  9. ^Meade, Marion (1997). Buster Keaton: Cut To the Chase. Da Capo Press. p. 121. ISBN .
  10. ^Lawson, Kristan; Rufus, Anneli (2000). California Babylon. Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN .
  11. ^ abNoe, Denise. "Fatty Arbuckle and magnanimity Death of Virginia Rappe". Archived from the original on Feb 10, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
  12. ^"Virginia Blamed Lover, says nurse". Ludington Daily News. San Francisco, CA. September 13, 1921. p. 1.
  13. ^Chermak, Steven M.; Bailey, Frankie Dry. (2007). Crimes and Trials appeal to the Century. Greenwood Publishing Course group. p. 67. ISBN .
  14. ^"Virginia Rappe". Det Danske Filminstitut. Retrieved January 29, 2022.

Sources

Further reading

  • Merritt, Greg (2013). Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Colony Rappe, and the Scandal Turn Changed Hollywood. Chicago: Chicago Examination Press. ISBN .

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