- Born
- Died
- Birth nameVirginia Caroline Rapp
- Nickname
- The Best Dressed Girl In Pictures
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- An actress best known for her death, her controversial demise occurred the day after being discovered in a hotel bedroom during a party that involved a large amount of alcohol consumption. Actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was the last person seen with Rappe before she was found seriously injured. After her death, Arbuckle went through a murder trial and retrials before being found not guilty. The trials severely damaged the reputations of both Arbuckle and Rappe, and Arbuckle's career never recovered from the scandal.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Following her death, movie theatres across the country presented her films, advertising them as starring the victim of a sensational Hollywood murder.
- By September 17, 1921, the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America Association had prohibited all of her films in order to prevent exploiting her death.
- The Labor Day party that she attended where she died, took place in the suite of rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221 of the St. Francis Hotel, overlooking San Francisco's Union Square.
- Recently discovered documents prove Virginia Rappe's birth date as July 7, 1891.
- Engaged to director/producer Henry Lehrman at the time of her untimely death.
- To think that I've led such a quiet life and that I should have gotten into such a part.
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