9798189352164 - the closed door at 1219: virginia rappe, roscoe arbuckle, and the death hollywood could not explain de indrawan, ricky (4 resultados)
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The Closed Door at 1219 : Virginia Rappe, Roscoe Arbuckle, and the Death Hollywood Could Not Explain
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One closed hotel-room door. One fatal injury. A century of certainty the surviving record cannot support.On Labor Day 1921, model and silent-film actress Virginia Rappe became acutely ill during a gathering at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. Four days later, she died from peritonitis afte…r a ruptured bladder. Roscoe Arbuckle-one of Hollywood's most famous comedians-was accused, prosecuted for manslaughter, tried three times, and acquitted. The legal case ended. The questions around room 1219 did not.The Closed Door at 1219 revisits one of old Hollywood's most enduring true crime scandals without turning uncertainty into accusation or acquittal into erasure. Working from the surviving record, Ricky Indrawan follows the documented timeline from Rappe's life before the headlines through the Labor Day gathering, her medical decline, the investigation, the courtroom battles, and Hollywood's punishment of Arbuckle after the verdict.At the center is the evidence the public story often outran: witnesses who could trace movement toward a door but not establish what happened behind it; a catastrophic injury whose mechanism remained disputed; missing or incomplete medical material; changing testimony; and six explanations that must be weighed without pretending any one of them can solve what the record cannot.The book also restores Virginia Rappe to a story that repeatedly reduced her to evidence, rumor, or a weapon in arguments about Arbuckle. Her work as a model, fashion figure, and silent-film actress appears alongside the posthumous attacks on her health, conduct, and character. The result is not a simple defense of one name at the expense of another, but a disciplined account of a woman who died, a man the courts did not convict, and an industry that learned how quickly scandal could become governance.Through three trials, medical testimony, witness credibility disputes, press sensationalism, and Hollywood self-regulation, this historical true crime investigation examines the gap between legal verdict, public judgment, and historical memory. It asks what can responsibly be said when the body establishes the injury, the law rejects criminal certainty, and the archive remains incomplete.Written in an evidence-aware, victim-respectful, and cinematic style, The Closed Door at 1219 is for readers drawn to old Hollywood history, famous American trials, silent-film scandals, media sensationalism, and unresolved deaths. It does not promise a revelation hidden behind the door. It offers a careful path through what is documented, what was alleged, what was contested, and what remains unknown.Enter room 1219 through the record-and leave the myths outside. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
