The Dark Secrets and Scandals That Shaped Old Hollywood as We Know It

The Tragic Death of Peg Entwistle

Entwistle, a British stage actress who appeared in a number of Broadway production and one film posthumously, Thirteen Women. After Entwistle’s career began to falter during the Great Depression, she flung herself from the “H” on the Hollywood sign. The woman who found her body discovered a suicide note in her purse. It 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.”

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