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Peg Entwistle: Uncle Harold
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On the evening of Sept. 18, Entwistle scaled the canyon hill from her uncle’s home to the Hollywood Sign. Using a workman’s ladder, she climbed 50 feet to the top of the “H” and jumped to her death. Just 24 at the time of her death, she was nicknamed by the tabloids as “The Hollywood Sign Girl.”
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The beautiful Peg became a star of Broadway as she became a hit with the audiences. While working on Broadway, Peg married an actor named Robert Keith. The marriage quickly went down hill as they fought about his bad debts, and lies. Her husband owed back child support, for a son from a previous marriage that Peg had known nothing about. This son her husband owed child support for was Brian Keith, who later played Uncle Bill in the television show Family Affair. Brian Keith later committed suicide in 1997.
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On Monday, September 19, 1932, after identifying Peg Entwistle, Harold Entwistle filled in some of the blanks for authorities and the press.[24] She indeed had been upset at not being able to impress the studios. She told him that she was going to walk to a nearby drugstore and then visit friends.[24]
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There was a rumor that Peg had jumped because of an ill-fated love affair. She was married in 1927 for two years to an actor named Robert Keith. Robert had a very young son named Brian, who grew up to be "Uncle Bill," on the show "Family Affair," and ended his life himself in 1997. Her uncle ruled this out as the cause of her decision to off herself, because it had happened two years prior to the jump.
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THE HAUNTING: Like many young, ambitious actors who flocked to Hollywood in the 1930s, Entwistle moved to Los Angeles in 1932 with visions of starring roles in the latest talkies. And, like many others, Entwistle found only disappointment. Living at her uncle’s house on Beachwood Drive in Hollywood, literally under the shadow of the Hollywood Sign, Entwistle waited for her big break — it was a break that would never come.
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The blonde, blue eyed actress was born Lillian Millicent Entwistle, in this house in Port Talbot, Wales, in 1908. She spent her early years on Comeragh Road, in London. The family home was at number #53. Peg's mom died young, and by the time Peg was 14, she had left Britain to pursue an acting career in America. By 1931, she was in 8 consecutive Broadway shows - that flopped. Hollywood (or course) beckoned, and she came to LA. She with her Uncle Harold at 2428 Beachwood Drive, in Beachwood Canyon almost in the shadow of the famous sign that originally read, "HOLLYWOODLAND."
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