Throwback Thursday and Peg Entwistle
Born on February 5, 1908 in Wales, (while
her parents were traveling), Peg Entwistle is better known for her manner
of death than for her Hollywood and Broadway careers.
Peg Entwistle began working on Broadway
in 1926, and her breakout role was in The
Man from Toronto. She soon became the embodiment of the flapper girl of the
day with her short blonde hair and good looks. She also inspired Bette Davis who said: “I had
to be an actress, exactly like Peg Entwistle”.
She became a contract player with RKO
studios after finding success in the play The
Mad Hopes, with co-stars Humphrey Bogar and Billie Burke. Her first major role
was in David O. Selzneck’s Thirteen Women,
but unfortunately her appearance ended up on the cutting room floor, and this
was her first and last appearance in a major picture.
In 1932, at age 23, Peg Entwistle ended
her life by jumping from the H on the Hollywood sign (it was Hollywoodland at
the time). She is buried in Glendale, Ohio, next to her father.
But today in Hollywood, there are those who
claim to have seen the ghost of a young, blonde woman dressed in clothes of the
1920s-30s wandering the Hollywood hills. They say her
appearances are accompanied by the scent of her favorite perfume – gardenias.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Entertainment History
Factoid #134:
“Peg Entwistle was an actress who jumped off the
Hollywood sign.”
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“It was
haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have
to do with the menace of memory.”
― Anne Rice
― Anne Rice
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