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Peg Entwistle, a Wales-born blond-haired, blue-eyed actress, starts her career on Broadway in several plays from 1925-32 including "The Wild Duck" and "The Uninvited Guest" and in J.M. Barrie’s "Alice Sit By The Fire" before marrying Robert Keith. They divorce after she discovers that Keith had been married before and had a 6-year-old son she was not told about. After she is cut out of the David O. Selznick film "Thirteen Women," 24-year-old Entwistle commits suicide by jumping off the "H" of the Hollywood sign in 1932. At the base of the Hollywood sign a hiker who alerts police. They find a suicide note in Entwistle’s purse that reads: “I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.” Her death makes headlines across the nation.