Peg Entwistle

About Peg Entwistle

Millicent "Peg" Entwistle was once a young actress trying to make a name for herself, but instead she found fame as the ghost of the Hollywood sign. Found on pretty much every haunted Hollywood list, the sign sits high on Mount Lee in the hills of Griffith Park. Stories began swirling about its paranormal activity after 1932, when 24-year-old Peg Entwistle ended her life by jumping off the letter H.

Entwistle had moved to Los Angeles from the UK, hopeful about her acting career. She had some minor roles and found work for RKO starring in the film Thirteen Women, but the critics tore the film apart. The studio did as well; they re-edited it, cut out most of Entwistle's part, and dropped her contract. Completely distraught and probably drunk, she walked the park trails from her uncle's home to the sign (which then read "Hollywoodland") and ended her life. In a cruel twist of fate, she received a letter a few days later offering her a major role in a film – as a woman who commits suicide.

Entwistle gained fame as the actress that committed suicide on the Hollywood sign, and is also known as the only person in history to do so. Perhaps she's still around in more than just the popular imagination. Many people claim to have met her ghost, a sad looking blonde in 1930s clothes who smells of gardenias, as she makes the same walk to her death, night after night.