Peg Entwistle rare film appearance in "Thirteen Women"(1932)

Here is an all too brief chance to see and hear the legendary Peg Entwistle in the only surviving film footage of her tragically short career.

Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle ( February 5th 1908 - September 16th 1932) is today unfortunately remembered more for the bizarre circumstances of her death, rather than the contributions she made as a Broadway actress and (briefly) Hollywood starlet. Here are the two surviving scenes from her 1932 RKO movie Thirteen Women, in which she plays "Hazel Cousins", one of the thirteen women in the title. Peg shares the first scene with Mary Duncan, and in the second she murders her old man after receiving a rather peculiar astrological prediction from nasty Myrna Loy. Although her appearances are frustratingly short, Peg shows enough talent in these clips to suggest that she had a reasonable acting ability which sadly never got the chance to develop and flourish on screen.
Watch and weep at the promise that went to waste.........

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[MandyxxMassacre]

"Something terrible was going to happen to one of us...an accident...Oh no I can' go on, way up there..."

Very eerie.

Anyway, This movie looks excellent.

Right up my alley. :D

[jameszerukjr]

Thank you for posting this. I normally try to keep up on the latest Peg posts, however, maybe I was only supposed to find this today...on the 76th memory of her death.

I have the film on DVD and watch it often. Peg was a very good actor. She's actually better in this than Dunne and Loy. That's my opinion, anyway.

Thank you for being kind and fair to Peg and her memory. I shall pass this link along to her brother Milton and his daughter Lauretta.

God Bless you, Babs.

Love always,

James

[TheJKVW]

What a shame she jumped  of the Hollywoodland sign.

[Evelyn4eva]

@BRAZIL2014Y2016 I guess no one really knows....the script for the play I'm doing says it's because although she was a massive hit on Broadway she never felt that she 'made it big' in Hollywood, and refused to go back to Broadway and admit she couldn't make it on the 'Silver Screen'. However this is only the writer's interpretation.

I think it's utterly tragic that she took her life. I suppose no one will ever know exactly why. x

[BRAZIL2014Y2016]

@Evelyn4eva peg, because?

young, beautiful, talented, committed suicide because?

[Evelyn4eva]

This is so sad - I'm playing her in a play atm...really tragic :(

[Jotaemesg]

From what can be seen here, it is obvious that Miss Entwistle was perfectly competent. I find it hard to believe that she was unhappy with her career. Maybe she was in distress for some other reason.

[odannyboj]

Peg suicides off the Hollywood sign, while a few years later her co-star (and villain) in Thirteen Women, Myrna Loy, is voted Queen of Hollywood. And I had no idea of the Brian Keith connection. You couldn`t write this as fiction...

[musoid]

@FemaleFeet100 Actually considering she was only in Hollywood for a couple of months and already was in a major studio film with some of the leading actors of the day, an opportunity many other actors labor years to achieve, if ever, I don't believe it was simply being down on her luck. I really think she had something like manic depressive disorder that can drive someone to do something that extreme regardless of how good or bad things actually are. But yes, very sad nonetheless.

[BlueJWay999]

Poor girl, she lived such a sad, lonely life, and even in death, her spirit doesn't rest. Somebody should help her to cross over.

[navycher]

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[hellomikie92]

What a great actress. I still can't believe she leaped off the Hollywood sign in 1932. So sad.