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  In Search of Peg Entwistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Lillian Millicent "Peg" Entwistle was born in Wales in 1908 to a family in the acting profession and spent her childhood living in London England.
Peg’s brothers were sent to live with their uncle, and Peg struck out on her own as an actress at the age of 17.
Peg tried to return to her Broadway career but it was the era of the American Depression and Peg and Broadway did not do too well.
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  Peg Entwistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peg Entwistle, (July 1, 1908 – September 18, 1932) was an aspiring actress remembered for the tragic end to her young life.
The depression Entwistle had been dealing with for years deepened, and on the night of September 18, after telling her uncle she was going for a walk, she made her way up the slope of Mount Lee to the foot of the giant "Hollywoodland" sign.
The body of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle was shipped to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in the Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 Peg Entwistle
Peg Entwistle, (July 1, 1908 - September 18, 1932), was an aspiring actress remembered for the tragic end to her young life.
Born Lillian Millicent Entwistle in Port Talbot, on Swansea Bay in Wales, her mother died when she was young and in 1922 she emigrated with her widowed father to New York City.
The depression Entwistle had been dealing with for years deepened and on the night of September 18, after telling her uncle she was going for a walk, she made her way up the slope of Mount Lee to the foot of the giant "Hollywoodland" sign.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peg Entwistle
Peg Entwistle (February 6, 1908 – September 18, 1932) was a Hollywood actress, famous for her suicide.
Entwistle had begun to pursue a career in theatre, making her stage debut in Hamlet with the Boston repertory company at age 17.
The ashes of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle were later sent to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 Mike's Comment of the Week - PEG ENTWISTLE--MAKING AN IMPACT IN HOLLYWOOD
There, her mother died while Peg was still a teenager, and she and her father moved to New York City in the 1920's.
The two young boys were sent to live with their Uncle Harold in Hollywood, but Peg, bitten by the acting bug, became part of the well-known Theater Guild, and stayed on in New York.
After having dinner on September 18, 1932, wearing a borrowed dress, Peg told her uncle that she was walking over to the local drugstore.
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 Peg Entwistle: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
By the age of 17, Entwistle had begun to pursue a career in theatre and spent several years acting in minor roles on Broadway (Broadway: A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters).
The depression (depression: A concavity in a surface produced by pressing) Entwistle had been dealing with for years deepened, and on the night of September 18, after telling her uncle she was going for a walk, she made her way up the slope of Mount Lee to the foot of the giant "Hollywoodland" sign.
P.E. The body of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle was shipped to Glendale, Ohio (Glendale, Ohio: more facts about this subject) for burial next to her father in the Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 Peg Entwistle - Welshpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Peg Entwistle, born July 1, 1908 - died September 18, 1932, was an aspiring actress remembered for the tragic end to her young life.
Her family life had not been easy and she was further stressed by a brief but very difficult relationship at the age of 19 with actor/playwright Robert Keith (1898-1966), a divorcee and father of future actor Brian Keith.
P.E. The body of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle was shipped to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in the Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 QI Talk Forum | View topic - Entwistle, Peg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Peg Entwistle was an actress of the twenties and thirties whose career has long been overshadowed by her own death.
Entwistle, orphaned as a teenager, fended for herself in New York, pursuing a career in acting that saw her join the Boston repertory company.
Whilst the film sat on the shelf, Entwistle went from audition to audition but with no success, her contract with RKO was allowed to lapse.
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 Behind the Sign
Peg Entwistle was a British-born actress who had come to America at fourteen to pursue an acting career.
Peg Entwistle's funeral was held at the W.M. Strothers Mortuary, which has since been torn down.
Peg was twenty-four years old at the time of her death.
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 BESTWRITERS.COM -- Mike's Comment of the Week - PEG ENTWISTLE--MAKING AN IMPACT IN HOLLYWOOD
Not surprisingly, the marriage dissolved in 1930, as Peg got more Broadway work in productions that were not flops, even if they did not become giant hits.
Peg was elated when she secured a deal from RKO Studios, that got her a part in Thirteen Women (1932).
And, in one of those supreme ironies that seem to be a permanent part of Hollywood, at about this time, a letter would arrive at Harold's house from the Beverly Hills Playhouse offering Peg the lead role in their next production: She was to play the part of a young woman who commits suicide.
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 HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD 3!
Peg went back to the Broadway stage, but this part of her life was also coming to an end.
Peg’s part, despite her good showing, had been reduced to little more than a cameo appearance.
Peg Entwhistle, the gorgeous young woman who had shot to fame on Broadway, had now fallen to the bottom of the Hollywood barrel.
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 Remembering the confused soul who jumped from Hollywood sign | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Born on that date in 1908 in Wales, the girl christened Lillian Millicent Entwistle would come to symbolize everything dark and rapacious about the chew-you-up/spit-you-out Hollywood of the 1930s (and, now that we mention it, the Hollywood of today).
Peg Entwistle, an aspiring actress, committed suicide by jumping off the Hollywood sign.
For the record, the sign read “Hollywoodland” in those days, and Entwistle leaped from the letter H. Whether she jumped because she'd been thwarted in her dreams of film stardom we'll never know.
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 BAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
An aspiring actress, 24-year-old Peg Entwistle was the first suicide to jump from the Hollywood sign.
On the night of September 18, 1932, Entwistle told her uncle she was going for a walk, then made her way up the mountain to the foot of the giant "HOLLYWOODLAND" sign.
Entwistle's body was found two days later, and two days after that a letter addressed to her from the Beverly Hills Playhouse arrived at her uncle's home.
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 Peg Entwistle - Overview - MSN Movies
July 1, 1908 in London, UK Biography:Her spectacular death completely overshadowing whatever merits she may have had as an actress, striking blonde starlet "Peg Entwistle" came from the Broadway stage, where she had enjoyed some success in Alice Sit-By-the-Fire and Getting Married.
Producer "David O. Selznick" cast her as one of the "Thirteen Women" (1932), a rather low-brow revenge thriller starring "Irene Dunne" as a sorority alumna stalked by a disgruntled former sorority sister, played by "Myrna Loy".
Entwistle, as a fellow sorority member, is forced into murdering her own husband by the vengeful Loy and then hysterically induced to commit suicide, but her brief appearance was completely overlooked and RKO failed to pick up her option.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Two days later, in an ironic twist, Entwistle's uncle opened a letter addressed to her from the Beverly Hills Playhouse; it was mailed the day before she jumped.
In it was an offer for her to play the lead role in a stage production, in which her character would commit suicide in the final act.
The ashes of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle were later sent to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in Oak Hill Cemetery; her remains were interred on January 5, 1933.
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 NPR : The Hollywood Sign, Present at the Creation
Entwistle's suicide linked inseparably the very name of the town to failed dreams and thrust the paradox of HOLLYWOOD into the spotlight.
• Learn more about Peg Entwistle, the dejected young actress who jumped to her death from the 'H' in the Hollywood Sign in 1932.
Actress Peg Entwistle jumped to her death from the sign in 1932.
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 Peg Entwistle
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 PEG ENTWISTLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Entwistle's theatre experience helped her land an acting job in a stage production starring Billie Burke, but the play closed after only a short run.
But instead of walking to the drugstore as promised, Peg made her way up the southern slope of a high hill called Mount Lee -- which was just down the street from her uncle's home -- to the foot of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
On January 5, 1933, the body of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle was shipped to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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 Morbidly Hollywood - Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - Peg Entwistle
Peg Entwistle was born Lillian Millicent Entwistle July 1, 1908 in London, England.
After the death of her mother when Peg was a child, she and her Father moved to New York where her Father would marry again and have two sons named Robert and Milton.
In 1927, Peg would marry Robert Keith a man 10 years her senior, but she soon discovered that he had been married before and had a six year old son who he had neglected to mention.
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 Entwistle's of Repute
This section is intended to record details of Entwistles throughout the world who have "made it" to positions of prominence or have become famous for some reason.
If you can show that you are a descendent of one of these Entwistles, you can obtain a Sons and Daughters of Trafalgar Certificate from the "Age of Nelson" website.
Ralph Entwistle, a convict servant, led a rebellion of convicts at Bathurst.
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 Peg Entwistle: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Peg Entwistle, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Entwistle had begun to pursue a career in theatre and spent several years acting in minor roles on Broadway (A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters)
Peg Entwistle's theatre experience helped land her an acting job on stage, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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 Entwistle Family History Association: Entwistle-Slike / Ross
Her father is Milt Entwistle, born in New York around 1917.
They then moved to Hollywood, CA to live with their Aunt, Uncle (Two brothers (Entwistle) married two sisters (Ross)) and ther cousin Peg Entwistle.
Peg was the actress who jumped from the Hollywood sign.
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 Peg Entwistle Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
1932 Born Lillian Millicent Entwistle in Port Talbot, on Swansea Bay in Wales, her mother died when she was young and in 1922 she emigrated with her widowed father to New York City.
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- 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever turning the sign into a symbol for the paradox of the American film industry.
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 Ginger's Forum
Peg Entwistle was an attractive blonde English actress who came to Hollywood in 1932.
Depondent, Entwistle climbed to the top of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign (which has since been shortened to read, "HOLLYWOOD"), and jumped 50 feet to her death.
Her suicide note read: If I had done this a long time ago, I would have saved myself a lot of pain." Entwistle was 24 years old at the time of her death.
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 Peg Entwistle
Peg's mom died young, and by the time Peg was 14, she had left Britain to pursue an acting career in America.
The first film she did for them was "The 13 Women," and Peg's part ended up mostly on the floor.
Liz Taylor was only 7 months old when Peg died, so it's doubtful that she sent flowers.
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 WWW.TABLETNEWSPAPER.COM--Life
PEG ENTWISTLE was a stage-to-screen actress of the late ‘20s.
She placed her purse and coat at the base of the maintenance ladder that led up the letter “H.” She then climbed and threw herself from it.
The following day a letter was sent to Peg from the Beverly Hills Playhouse who wanted her to star in their upcoming production about a young girl who commits suicide.
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