Tag Archive | Historical Nonfiction
Room 1219: the Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal that Changed Hollywood, by Greg Merritt
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
On Labor Day in the year 1921, at a bootleg booze-infused party in San Francisco, movie star Roscoe โFattyโ Arbuckle followed a woman named Virginia Rappe into the bedroom of room 1219 at the St. Francis Hotel and locked the door behind them. Four days later Rappe…