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November 25, 2007
Best of the Jewish Blogosphere #142 Plus Peg Entwistle
We'd like to thank Soccer Dad for including Seraphic Secret's Aunt Pearl, Nanny & Thanksgiving in this week's fine round-up.
Hollywood is filled with actors who crave stardom. Every once in a while I gaze up at this sign and ponder the short and very sad life of Welsh born actress Peg Entwistle.
Peg Entwistle
She was never a star.
Not even a minor star.
One tiny, non-speaking role in a movie called Thirteen Women makes up her entire filmography. And Peg wasn't even invited to the film's premiere. Such a slight in Hollywood can be devastating to a young and vulnerable actress. I've seen it time and again.
Peg Entwistle achieved fame, well, notoriety, by being the first suicide off this famous landmark.
Her suicide note read:
"I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain." P.E.
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.
—Wickipedia
Peg Entwistle was just 24 years old when she died.
Peg's studio glamour photo.
Photo courtesy: It'll Take the Snap Out of Your Garters!
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at November 25, 2007 11:27 AM
Comments
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Horrible!
Posted by: kishke at November 25, 2007 01:59 PM
Kishke:
Horrible and tragic. Peg Entwistle was just the first of several suicides from the sign.
Come visit us here in LA. We live just a few minute's drive from the Hollywood sign. We'll take a shpatzeer.
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at November 25, 2007 06:46 PM
Will do. One day.
Posted by: kishke at November 25, 2007 06:54 PM
Kishke:
We look forward to it.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at November 25, 2007 09:04 PM
They're still committing suicide from that sign... only now it's the real estate agents who can't move the overpriced homes surrounding the sign to, well... save their lives.
Posted by: Jake at November 26, 2007 04:02 AM
Jake:
Not in my neighborhood. One-room shacks near Orthodox shuls are going for over a million dollars in the blink of an eye.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at November 26, 2007 10:13 AM