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On the night September 16, 1932 , little-known actress Peg Entwistle took her life by jumping off the letter "H" from the famous Hollywood sign. Entwistle's last contact with her uncle was telling him that she was going to "rendezvous with a friend," at a drug store, though Police suspect that she instead re-routed her walk toward the Hollywoodland sign. Again, it can be hard to separate truth from fiction in a show that rides the line so much between the two. Entwistle’s character is a small link in the long chain of crazed lesbian killers that eventually brought us, Made Up of Seemingly Random Combinations of Letters, biography of screenwriter and director Clyde Bruckman.
Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. To begin with, she had to take care of her little sisters. Peg Entwistle was a Wales-born actress who made her way to Boston, and, eventually, New York to act on stages. They took him to a doctor and so help me God this girl had infected him.
For a long while he had been very deeply in love with Peg, and he wanted her to marry him very much. Just like Hollywood says, Peg Entwistle climbed a workman's ladder to the top of the 'H' in the 'Hollywoodland' sign, and jumped to her death.
Hazel Cousins Admits Slaying; Says, ‘I Must Have Lost My Mind.’ ”.
But Entwistle did more during her brief time in Hollywood than create one of its foundational myths; she also made a movie. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1926 that “there is a hint of the oriental about her—a tinge of the inscrutability of the ancient East,” adding a year later that she was “able to achieve an oriental atmosphere with the slow lift of her eyelids.” (As you can see in Thirteen Women, her eyelids seem to have had some help in that department from Scotch tape.) This FAQ is empty. While many characters and scenarios in Hollywood come from a unique combination of fiction and reality, the story featured in the in-series script for Peg is an entirely factual one. For a long while he had been very deeply in love with Peg, and he wanted her to marry him very much.
You’ve run out of free articles. Reviewing his novel An American Girl for the New Yorker, Dorothy Parker sliced Thayer’s prose into bloody ribbons, fed the ribbons into a meat grinder, and threw the meat grinder out a fifth floor window, beginning with Thayer’s description of “an hollow square” in the book’s first sentence. Then again there was her father, who drank as no self-respecting fish would ever think of doing. Entwistle’s earlier scene, in which she attends a circus performance where one of her sorority sisters dies in a trapeze accident, was reedited to mostly remove her lover, and in the finished film, which clocks in at a lean 59 minutes, she barely has anything to do. Today, the scenes RKO and the SRC spent so much time worrying about haven’t quite aged into wholesomeness—they’re still about a lesbian homewrecker provoking a murder, after all—but no one would picket a movie theater over them.
Mrs. Martel, one of Peg's friends, was employed in a motion picture studio. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. One of her co-stars, the silent film actress Laurette Taylor, suffered from severe alcoholism and missed performances, leading ticket buyers to get refunds, and for the show to eventually be canceled after only a few weeks. Directed by George Lessey.
Before Thirteen Women became a terrible movie, it was an even worse book.
But Peg refused. But Peg refused. While this might be logically attributable to a combination of lack of maintenance and wind, Vanity Fair notes that this moment was just the first of many moments where people have suggested that Entwistle's spirit could be haunting the iconic sign that was originally meant to attract potential homebuyers.
On the evening of Sept. 16, 1932, actress Peg Entwistle climbed the H in the Hollywoodland sign and leapt off into eternity. As the series continues, the movie based around Entwistle within Hollywood changes a bit—Peg becomes Meg—but the story at its core remains true-to-life.
Moving Picture World synopsis, A two-reel number, in which the plot develops somewhat too slowly and lacks a certain degree of feeling in the acting.
All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. In Netflix's new series Hollywood, Peg Entwistle's untimely death is the premise of the hottest new script in town: Peg.Written by Jeremy Pope's character Archie, the movie … Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Her good looks and her manner impressed the manager, and he offered her an immediate engagement, which Peg accepted, despite the vehement protests of Stephen. Her good looks and her manner impressed the manager, and he offered her an immediate engagement, which Peg accepted, despite the vehement protests of Stephen. Stephen thought so, and Stephen knew, because he was a very clever young man. Even in popular culture, the story has been mythologized. Thayer also offers readers plenty of opportunities to tsk at astrology, adultery, homosexuality, women who gain weight after marriage, and women in general. He was ashamed to tell her about it, but they finally got it out of him that it hurt him. From "Veronica Mars" to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen.
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Her dream, of course, was to eventually become a movie star. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. The first sentence humbly claims, “This is the damndest book you ever read,” and that’s as good an introduction to Thayer’s inimitable prose style as any. That was Entwistle’s Friday night, and the rest of her weekend wasn’t much better: Her body wasn’t found until Sunday evening, and it was Monday before an uncle identified her. (She does this by posing as an astrologist and sending predictions of doom to her former classmates, letting the power of suggestion handle the rest. Was this review helpful to you? With Ben F. Wilson, Gertrude McCoy, Robert Brower, Bigelow Cooper.
That’s not really what people like seeing in a tragic heroine, and it’s certainly not how Hollywood likes to present itself, so we seem to have collectively decided to leave the whole Thirteen Women plotline on the cutting room floor, in favor of her big scene atop Mount Lee, all 1.6 seconds of it. Entwistle biographer James Zeruk Jr. notes that RKO’s script reader Miriam Meredith advised the studio against buying Thirteen Women because it contained “nothing for pictures.” It didn’t listen, but in any event, Meredith had it backward.
She came to Hollywood to appear in a quickie, racist adaptation of an even more offensive book, in a role (and movie) that seems to have been designed exclusively to test the limits of the Production Code. But Peg refused. Later, Parker notes, Thayer describes “an Hapsburg” and “an hill,” but also “a hotel,” which she found touching, since that kind of error “could happen to anybody who had no ear and never went beyond the fourth grade.”, Parker and Fitzgerald were not alone in their grim assessments of Thayer’s work.
RKO. And there's a good bit to that story. Instead of pining away and dying of anemia, this Hazel ends up in prison after stabbing her husband when he unexpectedly returns home to find her with her lover. Here’s her makeup: Loy landed the role of Nora Charles in The Thin Man in 1934, pivoted to the comedies she’s remembered for today, and never looked back, but at the beginning of her career, Warner Brothers had typecast her as what was then referred to as an “exotic.” (She also made an entire feature in blackface.) Author Tiffany Thayer had had a minor hit in 1930 with Thirteen Men, a novel about the members of a jury and the man they judge.
Entwistle’s stage career has long since faded from living memory, though by all accounts, she was good: Bette Davis said that Entwistle’s Hedvig in a 1925 production of The Wild Duck inspired her to pursue acting. In the aftermath, the actors (including Entwistle) only received a week's salary for their work, despite being promised a percentage of the profits.
It turns out the only way Peg Entwistle’s story works is if you cut her role down to almost nothing. Her only film appearance is in Thirteen Women, an RKO film directed by George Archainbaud, and although the fact that most of her performance ended up on the cutting room floor has become part of her myth, the film itself has not. Stephen thought so, and Stephen knew, because he was a very clever young man. Peg was a British actress and became known as 'the Hollywood sign girl' in tabloids across the world, after jumping off the iconic site's 'H' letter. Looking for some great streaming picks? Tue, Oct 13, 2020 Subscribe Like most Hollywood dreams and most Hollywood résumés, hers was more complicated, more lurid, and a lot more racist than anything that’d make it into an Oscar montage. appeared in plays between 1926 and early 1932. View production, box office, & company info. However devastating it must have been for Entwistle to be cut out of her screen debut, watching Thirteen Women now, it seems like a kindness, and not just because the movie isn’t any good. (The reliably parochial Washington Post was the winner, writing that Entwistle “Left Broadway Stardom for California’s Oblivion.”) It took just four days for Entwistle to permanently retire from acting and reinvent herself as a symbol of the perils of show business, but 88 years later, she’s still hard at work. “She was more than just a girl who jumped off an H.”. Entwistle had been living with her uncle, who was the one to identify her deceased body. Somewhat incredibly, that plotline survived in Bartlett Cormack and Samuel Ornitz’s screenplay, although their Hazel is less passive than Thayer’s. All rights reserved.
Hollywood, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s revisionist look at golden-age filmmaking, is the latest example—the show’s first season is structured around the production of an Entwistle biopic—but over the years, she’s shown up everywhere from trashy tell-alls to Steely Dan songs, nearly as much a part of show business lore as the sign she jumped from. The story of a failed actress killing herself by jumping off the very symbol of her crushed dreams has a narrative symmetry that’s almost never seen in the wild, and on Sept. 20, newspapers all over the country competed with one another to see who could slap the most purple headline on the AP wire story.
Peg was a good girl, and a pretty girl.
On reading the script, RKO was reminded in no uncertain terms that “even a hint of this sort of thing is impermissible under the code.” The studio told the SRC that it’d fix the script, then sent over a “final” version with no major revisions. Entwistle had apparently been simultaneously living her life in Los Angeles while still appearing in Broadway productions, because her eventual obituary (after her eventual September 1932 death) said that she came to L.A. more than a year prior. Warning: Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s Hollywood season 1. The rebellious lover himself finally joins the company as the hero. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. While in New York, she starred in numerous broadway productions, and earned rave reviews for her work. Thirteen Women contained too much for pictures: too much sex, too much violence, and above all, too many lesbians.
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