Peg Entwistle

Peg Entwistle was a Welsh-born English stage and screen actress born on February 5, 1908. Entwistle began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women, which was released after her death. Entwistle began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women, which was released after her death. Entwistle gained notoriety after she jumped to her death from the "H" on the then “Hollywoodland” sign at the age of 24. By 1926 Entwistle had been recruited by the New York Theatre Guild. Her first credited Broadway performance was in June of that year, as "Martha" in The Man from Toronto, which opened at the Selywn Theatre and ran for 28 performances. In April 1927 Entwistle married actor Robert Keith at the chapel of the New York City Clerk's office and was granted a divorce in May 1929 with charges of cruelty claiming her husband did not tell her he had been married before and was the father of a six-year-old boy, Brian Keith (who later became an actor and who himself committed suicide). Aside from a part in the suspense drama Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Case of Miss Faulkner and her desire to play more-challenging roles, Entwistle was often cast as a comedian, most often the attractive, good-hearted ingénue. In early 1932 Entwistle made her last Broadway appearance, in J. M. Barrie's Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, which also starred Laurette Taylor, whose alcoholism led to two missed evening performances and refunds to ticket-holders. The show was cancelled and in the aftermath Entwistle and the other players were given only a week's salary, rather than a percentage of the box office gross which had been agreed upon before the show opened. By May 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Entwistle was in Los Angeles with a role in the Romney Brent play The Mad Hopes starring Billie Burke, which ran from 23 May to 4 June at the Belasco Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. After The Mad Hopes closed, Entwistle found her first and only credited film role for Radio Pictures (later RKO). Thirteen Women stars Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in a pre-Hays code, high-budget thriller produced by David O. Selznick and drawn from the novel by Tiffany Thayer. Entwistle played a small supporting role as Hazel Cousins. It premiered on 14 October 1932, a month after her death, at the Roxy Theatre in New York City and was released in Los Angeles on 11 November to neither critical nor commercial success. By the time it was re-released in 1935, 14 minutes had been cut from the film's original 73 minute running length. In 2008 Variety magazine cited Thirteen Women as one of the earliest "female ensemble" films. On 18 September 1932, an anonymous woman telephoned the Los Angeles police and said that while hiking she had found a woman's shoe, purse and jacket below the Hollywoodland sign. The suicide note as published read:
"I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.”
Entwistle's death brought wide and often sensationalized publicity. Her funeral was held at the WM Strathers Mortuary in Hollywood on 20 September. On 10 October 2015, alleged sightings of Peg Entwistle's apparition at the Hollywood sign were a feature on the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures, in the episode "Haunted Hollywood."

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