Dorothy Dell

Dorothy Dell was interred in Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans, Louisana. The body of twenty-four-year-old Peg Entwistle was shipped to Glendale, Ohio for burial next to her father in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Dell was killed instantly and Wagner died several hours later. When police examined the girl's belongings, in her purse they found a note that read:. On their way to Pasadena their vehicle was involved in an accident. She then climbed the maintenance ladder to the top of the letter “H” and jumped to her death. In 1934 she attended a party in Altadena, California with Dr Carl Wagner, to whom she was reported to have become engaged. There, she took off her coat and folded it into a neat bundle and placed it on the ground next to her purse.

Paramount scheduled her to play opposite Gary Cooper and Shirley Temple in Now and Forever in what was to have been her first major starring role as a romantic lead. The depression Entwistle had been dealing with for years deepened, and on the night of September 18, after telling her uncle she was going for a walk, she made her way up the slope of Mount Lee to the foot of the giant "Hollywoodland" sign. Her next film Shoot the Works led to comparisons with Mae West, and her rendition of the ballad "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming" in the film became a hit record. Desperate for any opportunity, the vulnerable girl posed topless for a small fee - but only five months after arriving in Tinseltown, she was left with no prospects, no money, and no friends. Her most important and substantial role followed in the Shirley Temple film Little Miss Marker. Selznick production, Thirteen Women, but after this short stint, she was offered nothing else. The film was a success and the reviews for Dell were favourable; Paramount began to consider her as a potential star. She then obtained a minor part in a David O.

She won her first film role over such established contenders as Mae Clarke and Isabel Jewell and made her debut in Wharf Angel (1934). Peg Entwistle's theatre experience helped land her an acting job on stage, but the play closed after only a short run. She moved to Hollywood in 1933 and was signed to a contract by Paramount Studios. Her uncle's bungalow was just down the street from the pathway of a high hill known as Mount Lee - where developers, in order to advertise their real estate project, had put up 50-foot-high white letters that read "H O L L Y W O O D L A N D.". During this time she was closely associated with Russ Colombo and her celebrity status was elevated by the media attention she received while denying rumours of an impending marriage. Arriving there in April of 1932, she stayed at a rooming hotel for women until her money ran out, then went to live at the home of an uncle in Beachwood Canyon. In 1931 she moved to New York to appear on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies, and followed this success with her role in the production of Tattle Tales in 1933. When he returned to New York to work on Broadway, she made the decision to move to California to find work in the motion picture industry.

With this success she established a successful vaudeville act. Jobs for Entwistle proved difficult but Robert Keith had met with some success in Hollywood. She began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of fifteen won the title of "Miss New Orleans". The onset of the Great Depression had a severe impact on the entertainment business on the hard-hit industrialized East Coast. Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she spent much of her childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family life had not been easy and she was further stressed by a brief, but very difficult, relationship at the age of 19 with actor/playwright Robert Keith (1898-1966), a divorcee and father of future actor Brian Keith. Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress. By the age of 17, Entwistle had begun to pursue a career in theatre and spent several years acting in minor roles on Broadway.

Lamour also won the title of "Miss New Orleans" in 1931, succeeding her friend Dell who had won the title the previous year. Born Lillian Millicent Entwistle in Port Talbot, on Swansea Bay in Wales, her mother died when she was young and in 1922 she emigrated with her widowed father to New York City. Dorothy Lamour, a childhood friend of Dell, credited Dell as the person responsible for the beginning of her own film career. Peg Entwistle, (July 1, 1908 - September 18, 1932), was an aspiring actress remembered for the tragic end to her young life. Her final role in "Now and Forever" was taken by Carole Lombard, and provided Lombard with one of her earliest significant successes. P.E.". If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain.

I am sorry for everything. "I am afraid, I am a coward.