Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle

 Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle (February 15, 1908 – September 16, 1932)

She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women, which was released after her death. Peg Entwistle reportedly emigrated to America via Liverpool aboard the SS Philadelphia and settled in New York City. In December 1922, her father, Robert Entwistle died, the victim of a hit-and-run motorist on Park Avenue and 72nd Street in New York City. Peg and her two younger half-brothers were taken in by their uncle, who had come with them to New York and was the manager of Broadway actor Walter Hampden. Walter Hampden gave Entwistle an uncredited walk-on part in his Broadway production of Hamlet, which starred Ethel Barrymore. Entwistle, at age 17, played the role of "Hedvig" in a 1925 production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck. By May 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Entwistle was in Los Angeles with a role in the Romney Brent play The Mad Hopes starring Billie Burke. After The Mad Hopes closed, Entwistle found her first and only credited film role for Radio Pictures (later RKO). Thirteen Women stars Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in a pre-Hays code, high-budget thriller produced by David O. Selznick and drawn from the novel by Tiffany Thayer. Entwistle played a small supporting role as Hazel Cousins. On September 18, 1932, a woman was hiking below the Hollywoodland sign, when she found a woman's shoe, purse and jacket that, unbeknownst to her, belonged to Entwistle. She opened the purse and found a suicide note, after which she looked down the mountain and saw the body below. The woman reported her findings to the Los Angeles police and laid the items on the steps of the Hollywood police station. Later, a detective and two radio car officers found the body in a ravine below the sign. Entwistle remained unidentified until her uncle, with whom she had been living in the Beachwood Canyon area, identified her remains. Entwistle's death brought wide and often sensationalized publicity.

Her funeral was held at the W.M. Strathers Mortuary, in Hollywood. Her body was cremated and the ashes were later sent to Glendale, Ohio, for burial next to her father in Oak Hill Cemetery, where they were interred on January 5, 1933.