Peg Entwistle

Peg Entwistle is a Hollywood Actrice born the February 6th 1908 and dead the September 16th 1932. She is mainly known for her Suicide.

First years

Born Lillian Millicent Entwistle with Port Talbot, on bay of Swansea to the Wales (Great Britain), she emigrates in 1922 with New York with her father, widower. This last dies soon in a Accident of circulation; it enters then in depression. She dreams despite everything of a career in the spectacle, and fights with determination as of her more young age to be recognized there. She starts a career with the Théâtre at seventeen years, with Boston, while playing in Hamlet . She obtains thereafter several roles in parts with Broadway, among which Getting Married (with Dorothy Gish) and Alice-Sit-By-Tea-Fire (with Laurette Taylor). But with the Great Depression of the beginning of the Years 1930, the public is not laid out any more to offer places of spectacle: the seven last parts of Peg do not find their spectators. It takes this disaffection like a personal failure, which it tries to drown in the alcohol.

Career with Hollywood

Whereas Broadway crosses difficulties, the industry of the Cinéma to Hollywood knows one boom. The New Yorkean scene sufficient to make it more live, Entwistle decides to go in California with the hope to work there in the Cinéma. It arrives at Los Angeles in April 1932 and resides at Hollywood Studio Club, a building of hirings for suction actresses. Then, once its exhausted finances, it settles in her uncle Harold, to the 2428 Beachwood Canyon Drive. The theatrical experiment of Entwistle enables him to find a role in a part with Billie Burke. The part is not played a long time, but Peg takes down soon a small role in Thirteen women , a production of David Selznick for the studios RKO. Unfortunately, the film disappoints the criticism which descends it in flames. The contract of Peg Entwistle with RKO is not renewed. Overpowered, but still decided to be made a name in the Cinema, Peg in vain connects castings and hearings; but one proposes nothing any more to him and it starts to doubt its talents of actress. Its career is at the dead point. Five months only after her arrival with Hollywood, the promising actress feels rejected, without more money self-esteem nor. Ready to seize all opportunities, it poses in light behavior on photographs in exchange of a thin remuneration.

Died

The depression of Peg Entwistle reaches soon a peak. The September 16th 1932, after having drunk, it declares with his/her uncle that it leaves to make some races. But instead of going to the store as announced, Peg climbs the hill Mount Lee - at the end of the street where his/her uncle lives - to the foot of gigantic the sign Hollywoodland. Built at the origin in 1923 like publicity for a real estate transaction, the sign consists of fifteen height meters letters forming word “HOLLYWOODLAND” (the four last letters were removed in 1949).

After having reached the sign, Peg removes its coat, folds it carefully and deposits it by ground with its handbag. Then, borrowing the scale intended for maintenance, it assembles until the top of the letter “H” and jumps into space. Its dislocated body is found the September 18th 1932 in the undergrowth, with the foot of the hill. The police force discovers a message in its handbag: “I am afraid well to be loose. I am sorry for all. If I had done that a long time ago, that would have avoided many sufferings. EP”

By a tragic chance, his/her uncle receives later two days a letter addressed to Peg and dispatched his day before Mort by the Beverly Hills Playhouse. The letter contains a proposal for a first role in a part of Théâtre, in which the main character who would have been it his Suicide in the last act.

The January 5th 1933, the skin of Peg Entwistle, twenty-four years, is transported to Glendale (Ohio) to be buried close to his/her father there, with the cemetery of Oak Hill.

See too

Peg Entwistle on Internet Movie Database

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