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Peg Entwistle: Letters
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Entwistle's depression had reached its peak by summer's end. Thirteen Women was released on September 16, 1932; Peg wasn't invited to the premiere. After drinking alcohol that night, she told her uncle she was going to walk to a nearby drugstore. Instead of walking to the drugstore as promised, she made her way up the southern slope of Mount Lee—just down the street from her uncle's home—to the foot of the giant Hollywoodland sign. Originally constructed in 1923 to advertise a real estate development, the sign was made up of 50 ft. high white letters spelling "HOLLYWOODLAND" (the last four letters were removed in 1949).[1]
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[O]n that terrible night in September 1932, Peg announced to her Uncle Harold that she was going to take a walk. She was last seen alive heading down Beachwood Canyon toward Mount Lee. Apparently, Peg scratched her way up the slope to the Hollywood sign where she took off her coat and folded it neatly. She placed it, along with her purse, at the base of the maintenance ladder which led up the letter “H”. She climbed to the top and then plunged to her death.
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On the evening of September 18, 1932, Peg told Uncle Harold that she was going to walk up Beachwood to meet some friends at the local drug store. However, she climbed all the way up the hill (quite a hike from Beachwood Drive streetlevel) to the "Hollywoodland" sign. She climbed up the workman's ladder on the back of the letter "H." Then, she jumped off. Then, she died.
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In 1932, a disillusioned actress named Peg Entwistle climbed a worker's ladder to the top of the ``H'' and leaped off in a suicide attempt. But according to the book ``Lost Hollywood,'' by David Wallace, Entwistle missed the rocks that were five stories below and instead landed on a cactus. She underwent a series of operations but died painfully several days later. At the time, there was a letter in her mail from the Beverly Hills Community Players offering her a role in their next play.
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Two days later, Uncle Harold was sifting through the afternoon mail and he discovered a letter that had been mailed to Peg the day before she jumped to her death. The letter was from the Beverly Hills Playhouse and it had been written to offer Peg the lead role in their next production.
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Two days later, 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.[29]
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