The Tragic Story of the “Ghost of the Hollywood Sign”
“This woman with blond hair and she seemed to be like…. walking on air.”
At the young age of twenty-four, on the night of September 18th, 1932, Peg Entwistle told her uncle she’d be going to the drug store to buy a book and then for a walk with friends. Instead, she found herself at the base of the Hollywood sign, left her jacket and purse behind, climbed a maintenance ladder to the top of the famed “H,” and leaped off.
The History
A Troubled Past
Peg Entwistle, born in Wales in 1905 as Millicent Lilian Entwistle, along with so many other hopefuls, came to Hollywood chasing dreams of becoming a star.
A lot of Peg’s past is fuzzy. There’s not much to be said about her beyond the sensationalized press on her death. Even the only full biography on Ms. Entwistle (Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide by James Zeruk Jr.) doesn’t mention much of her mother, who is often mistakenly said to have died. All it says is that when Peg was two, her parents divorced and that in 1912 she emigrated to America with her father, and…
