James Zeruk, Jr. – an author with a time spanning affinity with an actress, once a mystery, now lovingly revealed: Peg Entwistle. “I spent seven years researching and writing Peg’s biography. I lived with her brother for several weeks. Milt’s daughter Lauretta loaned me many items from the archive and…
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One of the things I found most intriguing about this insightful and touching portrait of a golden girl’s fatal plunge into depression, was Hope Anderson’s account of filming the reenactment of Peg Entwistle’s last walk from from her home on Beachwood Canyon, up to the Hollywood sign. From finding a…
Peg has been depicted as a naïf, a lightweight and a wannabe, but nothing could be farther from the truth. No less a star than Bette Davis vividly recalled seeing her act in “The Wild Duck” in Boston in 1926. Davis said, “Before that performance, I wanted to be an…
Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign by Hope Anderson Introduction My interest in the actress Peg Entwistle, who in 1932 committed suicide from the Hollywood Sign (which then read Hollywoodland), began in 2006, when I began researching the neighborhood’s history for my documentary, Under the Hollywood Sign. Though seventy-four…
She started her career at 16 when she auditioned for, and joined, Katherine Dunham’s dance troupe. This babies — is poise. Hope you have a perfectly wonderful day.