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here today has a life story that is often told in what really comes down to sort of a sloppy shorthand. It goes like this in the way you often hear it. She went to LOS Angeles to become an actress. She failed and then became very desperate, then is not really accurate picture of pig and whistle or her life at all but her name is sort of like a touchstone name, that people will use and people kind of no, what happened and how her life ended. But they really that version of her story, and it's not accurate at all. So today we're gonna talk about her life and her career, and this Wilson,

as a little bit of an arm ramp into our spooky hollowing topics, because there is a tiny bit of paranormal stuff at the very very end. One note that I wanted to include just in case we have any peg aficionados among our listeners. She went by Bob's with her family, although it is unclear how she got that nickname. Her name was in no way Barbara, which is normally the person that would get the nickname Bob's, but we are not using that nickname in this episode just to keep things from getting confusing. So, just in case there are any peg fans out there who are wondering why we are not calling her that, particularly during her childhood before she started going by peg after seeing a production of the stage play peg. Oh, my heart is a preteen. That's why we're just doing it for a little bit of clarity and to keep things smoother, especially because there are a lot of names. They come up in this if we compare those down and keep it simpler, so much the better, also just a heads up that this episode includes a person taking their own life. Also, some discussion of domestic

I once. If those are sensitive topics for you, this one might be one they you skip, which has just fine but other than that we are going to get right into pig and whistle Peg was born, Millicent, Lillian and Twizel on February Fifth, nineteen o eight and Port Talbot Whales, her parents, weren't wealth, but English Robert and Emily and whistle had gone to Wales for their child. Birth said Emily. Mother Caroline could be there midwife after Emily and the baby were well have to travel again and whistles made their way back home to West Kensington in London. The end whistles ran a public house that served food and alcohol, but a few we also had routes in the theater Robert and his brother, Charles, we're both actors, Robert also designed sets and pigs Uncle Charles who by anti as a nickname was the more successful of the two in this regard, both as an actor. And is a manager working on behalf of actor and theatre owners in their business dealings in nineteen o six, Charles and whistle

made his way to the? U S, to work for producer, Charles Froman, and from that point on really had a pretty steady stream of business and some anchor in New York. Two years after peg was born. Robert and Emily abruptly divorced, and we really dont know why Robert got soul. Custody of peg, though other both sides of the fence. We remain very involved in her upbringing, yeah these involvement in her life was minimized as much as possible, but both Emily's relatives and Roberts were involved in pigs childhood in ninety, Eleven pigs Uncle Charles met, an actress named Jane Raw stirring up production of a place called Hobson's choice, and the two were the following year and made Jane Santa Monica House their home together. Initially when Charles brought his new wife to London in nineteen thirteen to meet his family. He also brought an offer to pigs, Father Robert Broadway producer, Charles Froman, who Charles and we have been working with at various points at that point, was willing to hide

robber is a stage manager so that he and his daughter could move to New York. There is some confusion in the historical record about exactly when Peg arrived in New York is a girl and had long been reported that she made her way across the Atlantic and ninety six teen and her name is on a passenger manifest for the Ss Philadelphia for one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, but she was definitely already in New York as early as one thousand nine hundred and thirteen based on entries and Jane Ross's diary on July 29th nineteen seen, Robert married Jane, Rasa, sister Loretta, Charles and Whistle and Jane Ross meanwhile, had moved to California to see what the motion picture industry had to offer. Insurers, in a variety of jobs in California, both in front of an behind the camera. I think his total career he made something like fifty movies at various points.

A robber was still working both off and on stage in New York. He was acting in steady, but minor roles. He was still doing things like stage managing and handling tickets, so he Loretta and Peg remained on the east coast as a sort of aside for just some historical context and nineteen fifteen, when the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German you about one of the casualties was Charles Froman through still employed, both of them with a brothers have company continued after his death Robert and Charles continued their relationships with the company immense, probably not surprising, that a child it was raised around so many theatre folks found herself drawn to the stage, and that was exactly what happened with peg in that one thousand eight hundred and seventeen Winnipeg was nine. The family had moved from a home in the Bronx to one on West 88Th Street, and the closer proximity to Broadway gave her ample opportunities to visit her father's work and what shows is often as she could convince some adult in the family to take her

She would memorize her fathers old scripts from previous productions and then she would mount her own staging of those shows in the family, home Pegs Brother Milton was born on September, twenty seventh nineteen seventeen and learn was pregnant. Again. A year later, Miss expanding family caused Robert to rethink his life in the theater he'd, never been particularly passionate about it. He had just sort of fallen into it and it was becoming less and less stable as a business. So, after finishing up a brief read of a place called Humpty Dumpty and nineteen eighteen, Robert left the theatre, he opened a stationary shop at the corner of EAST fifty. Fourth in Madison Avenue, that was just called box marked. That sounds kind of generic, but Robert had learned how to make exquisite custom gift boxes years earlier and that, coupled with a very high and offering of stationary, made the shop really popular and he had a very wealthy clientele

yeah his box, his custom boxes, you have to have an appointment to meet with him to get one made, and I read a description of some of them and it sounds like they were almost lake, an event to open up in an of themselves like they Woods, times open up in layers and have sort of little tat blow that would be related to what the gift was inside and they sounded incredibly intricate and beautiful and like something anybody would be delighted to open in nineteen eighteen peg joined the american Junior Red Cross and she assisted primarily with the friendship boxes, project which assembled kids of blankets, medicine, food and other basics for war refugees and she also fund raised for the organization. She was at this time also attending parochial school, at Saint Agnes Academy and with the armistice of November, eleventh nineteen eighteen, pigs, junior Red Cross duties, pretty much ended

I'm just a few months later, on March, eighteenth of nineteen nineteen pay got a new baby brother Bobby when he was born. Although Robert and vessel had left the theatre, the stage really still captivated peg. She starred in her first school play ass, Peter PAN when she was twelve. She also enjoyed a high degree of access to the world of theatre, thanks to frequent visits from her aunt Jane and Uncle Charles Charles continued to manage actors in New York, while also pursuing a career in California, so pegged got to meet a lot of broadways most popular performers and asked them about their work for a teenager. Just that in theatre. This was like an insider is acting school. You heard what you think of you just good legal wander on the movie sense as a kid and like talk to all of the Leeds and billing. Oh really, what are you? What are you When you have to do a thing like this, and then oh sorry went over this other lot where,

uncle also is managing somebody very famous and talk to them about their process of. I can't imagine how incredibly cool that must have been gas as a theatre, teen yeah, oh heavens, so much envy, but just as Peg was become really focused on what she was starting to see as her career destiny, the family experienced a sudden. Loss when Loretta Aunt Whistle PIG Step mother died of bacterial meningitis in April nineteen twenty one and she was only thirty five when she died, pig travelled her father and brothers, to Cincinnati Ohio to bury Loretta near her family and they stayed there in Ohio for several weeks and while Peg was very very close to Loretta. She, in fact, would refer to her ass. Her mother and kind of left, Emily out of the picture and while this loss was completely devastating, it also changed pegs home life in a way that really impacted her dream of acting because she was as

teenage daughter at that time expected to take on the care of her younger brothers. Another huge emotional blow, followed a year later when Pegs Father was badly injured and a hidden run, acts that, while walking home from his shop that happened in November of, in twenty two. After a long hospital stay during which he seemed to be improving, he died suddenly of our brain hemorrhage on December nineteenth. So, though, his death was somewhat unexpected because he had been recovering. The accident had prompted robber to dictate his will, while he was in the hospital- and he had stated in it- that Charles and Jane were to take care of the children in the event that anything happened to him with very specific language that, even though pegs biological mother was still alive, that he did not want her to have custody of Peg Box marked his successful store was bequeathed in two parts. Half of it went to his brother, Charles and half of it went to a woman named Marian dressing, who had been Roberts assistant in the business. Pretty much from that,

he started in and Charles sold his interest in the store to Marian immediately, and she just took it over after Roberts. Death Jane quit her acting career to be a full time, mother to Peg, Milton and Bobby. They move to Ohio to be closer to Jane and Loretta family, but after Bobby got a bad bacterial ear infection. Doctors suggested that he might do better in a war. Climate I'll Charles, had more or less left California and gone back to the managing Broadway actors. Los Angeles beckons to the and whistles Charles preferred the theater film, but theater jobs in LA were sparse. So once again he tried to make a go of it in the movie business and we're going to talk about the family's relocation to the West Coast in just a moment. But first we're going to pause and have a little sponsor break. This episode is brought to you by the all new twenty twenty four explorer Tracy. I know that you

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a really good fit for peg. She spent the summer after her first year school, in LOS Angeles with Jane and Charles Charles bought a fix. Her upper men started renovating it and it turned out that he was still working in New York a good deal. There were opportunities there that were a lot more plentiful than they were in LOS Angeles. So he traveled a lot back and forth. I feel, like this whole Emily really lives by coastal life throughout their their years. Peg returned to the Bishop School for the nineteen. Twenty four school year- but her enthusiasm she had initially had for this boarding school really waned. She had grown tired of its strict schedule and she was once again think about how she really wanted to life in the theater, and she just knew She did not want to go back to the girls Academy till she was still firmly against public school, so her uncle. Instead of making her go either to the private school or public school hired her a private tutor. When she was sixteen penguin,

all, at the Hollywood theatre, community schools take acting lessons because of her child had spent attending all these Broadway productions and soaking up the atmosphere and culture backstage. She was way out of her fellow students, her teacher suggested to Jane Ross that Peg get in thence and go ahead and get into the film business, but Peg, really only wanted to do. Theatre in nineteenth five pigs Uncle Charles used his connections to give peg, basically everything she ever could have dreamed. The New York Theatre Guild was opening a school called the theatre, Gill. School of acting in it offered a programme that was intended to weed out the best of the many hopefuls there. Arriving in New York, hoping to make a career on the stage and then form that small group that made it through the whole programme into a theatre company and pay because Charles had done a little work behind the scenes was invited to attend. So she finished your courses at the Hollywood theatre community

and then in June of nineteen twenty five. She and Charles headed EAST together, but shortly after Having a New York Peg met Henry. Do it at a party full of her her uncle theatre, friends, the Henry drew it players was already a well established, acting troop in Boston and drew. It was so impressed with peg that he asked her to join, we would be acting professionally and she would start earning money immediately, rather than waiting for the theatre guilt programme to play out and see if she was in the top tier of talent. That would be offered contracts with the end of the programme. So she took that offer abruptly changing course from New York to Boston for the debut season of the Boston, Repertory Theatre. When shoe it handed her a list of the twenty two plays, he was The hearing for the season for her to memorize she already knew twenty one of them by heart. Yeah, allegedly, the story goes that he here this list. She said. Oh, I already know all, but one of these any kind of looked to people that new her like

She just show voting there like. Oh no, she knows I'm up. She stayed in New York with her uncle Charles. Until August, and she went back home to Hollywood briefly for a visit and then back to New York, where she waited do its call that her Boston job was to begin in the meantime, her uncles friend Walter Hampton who was a successful actor and theatre manager arranged for peg. To have a walk on rule in a Broadway production of hamlet stirring. We'll bury more and pig could not be credited or paid for this because of her contract with you it. But it was a really exciting and fun opportunity. So she jumped at the chance just two weeks later, she was settling into her new life in Boston and were her thing for her first credited minor role on the professional stage. That was as a made in the comedy of manners, the rivals on schedule.

Of working at a repertory theater was gruelling rehearsing. Some shows during the day and performing and others at night, giving twelve shows a week every week for eight months, Peg loved it and critics and audiences loved her pegs performances head big and Heinrich Gibsons the wild duck that sees and was often reference to buy Betty Davis. As the thing that inspired her to become an actress, Betty Davis, had apparently seen her in this repertory and was blown away. It was like I want to do what she does, which is a pretty cool feather in her cap in the annals of history. And when that season was over Peg, who, at that point, had kind of become the darling of the Boston Theatre, seen once again turned her eyes to her first love, which was Broadway and opportunity came rather suddenly and in an unexpected way. Very much like her contract would do it had

She ended up as a last minute replacement for a minor role in the man from Toronto when she ran into one of its actors randomly and human. They had an open slot that one of their actresses hadn't out and they needed a pretty blonde with an english accent which basically was peg. She thought he might just be hitting on her, but it did turn out to be a legit offer. The just off Broadway play was not especially well received, Peg One nice mention, but she really wasn't even noted in most of the reviews she was cast next in the home towners, which ran for seventy shows a block off Broadway and paid well. She was written up in the New York Times and critics praised her work in it, but she got her big Broadway break in a play called Tommy, which was produced by George, see time. It rehearsed briefly before, test staging in Atlantic City in Boston, and then it open at the gate theatre on Broadway on January tenth of nineteen twenty seven. There

use initially we're just ok, not great was colleagues is a fine show, but the play became a huge success due in part to the fact that it was wholesome at a time when so shows were being shut down due to inappropriate content. Peg was making five hundred dollars a week, plus a cut of the box office when the Gayety Theatre, sudden, switched over to become a movie house. The production of Tommy move for blocks to the Elton Theatre, which had more seats, which always sold and larger dressing rooms by the time. Tommy Closed at the end of July had become one of the most successful shows of the year. That is also a nice accidental cross over to our episode on Julian melted near it all connects awhile Tommy had been making its successful run. Peg met the handsome and charming actor Robert Lee Keith. He was ten years older than she was an pagan, Robert, mere on April 18th, nineteen, twenty seven. After what the press reported as a four day courtship, although

in a letter to her family peg, indicated that she had met him a year before their wedding. They did not actually see are there in the time between then and the Thursday where she met him. A second time, just days before saying I do in a very brief courthouse: wedding Import, Chester, New York, so really there courtship was only four days long, but she may be had met him a year prior briefly, but then they had to Back to Broadway, because Peg show was running and Robert had just opened a new play that he had written. We will talk about the realities of this marriage. In just a moment after we hear from one of the sponsors that keeps the show going. This episode of stuff you missed in history class is brought to you Eighty tea, would you like to get the latest innovation and smart home security combined with twenty four seven monitoring from the most trusted name and home security? If so, eighty is for you, Ain T has a team of her nationals that will design and install a secure, smart home. Just for you- and there are eighteen

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and Robert Keith's sudden whirlwind romance and marriage, and it sounds really romantic and exciting. Perhaps I was one a route for those crazy kids that do crazy things like that, but this was a really terrible mistake on pegs part for one robber. Had never disclosed to her that he had actually been married before and that he had a child from that marriage, his mother and best friend, who had so sign. The marriage certificate had also kept that information from Peg and by the way Robert Son was Brian Keith. He went on to her in a variety of roles and film and television, including the parent trap and the serious family affair, which I desperately loved ass. A kid it's like four days is an incredibly short courtship, but that's an important piece of information to just not give up in that four days. Well, and it sounds like because peg was pretty open in the press and just socially that she did not want kid. She did not enjoy

kids. She did not want to family because she thought it would detract from her career, which was the only thing she cared about. So there is a sort of a general suspicion that he wilfully kept it from her, knowing she would never have married him yet then she commented on a photo of a young boy in her new husbands, apartment and his mother said it was Roberts. Child peg naturally was shocked and humiliated because, as highly just said, she did not like children. For another thing, it was instantly clear that heard new spouse was comfortable, keeping really important things from her. The entire foundation of this marriage was basically faulty. She kept her cool about it there and it was partly because she knew if she made a big fuss over the situation. It would create bad pr for her. She didn't want attain her career because she was becoming a real,

success on the Broadway stage is she wanted no scandals, but things were unfortunately even more complicated than she knew even after the review of this child, Robert was actually wanted by the police for failing to make his alimony payments, and he also had a drinking problem me asked Peg for money repeatedly, which she would give him, but he would always squander it rather than paying his debts and making those Ellen Any payments that he had been missing peg also got pregnant during the early days of their merit but she to terminate the pregnancy and she and Robert. Despite being two of the most popular actors, the New York Theatre seem to constantly have financial problems after Tommy closed and ass. Her purse, No life was really unravelling, peg start and play the uninvited guest, which was panned by critics, even though she was written up is better than the material. She was work

with the play had a really short run and afterward peg did not work for months from October nineteen, twenty seven to April nineteen, twenty eight she had no gigs and after many auditions Peg lost a juicy role that she desperately wanted in the stage adaptation of Serena blandishments. Ruth Gordon was the person who is cast in that role. Then the theatre Guild, which peg had always wanted to be part of, despite leaving their training programme, four Boston find both Peg and Robert to their touring company. That was on the anniversary of their one year wedding anniversary year. They have actually made them several days before and pig asked if they could wait until the day of their anniversary. So I just feel like a very special day and so pagan Robert seemed despite the messy deceitful started their marriage and their financial difficulties to actually get up for a while peg was determined to make their merit. Work, and we really did like each other and once they were signed

with the guild, she seemed to feel ass, though she had truly arrived and that things were turning around the money. Wasn't it you start rolling in until the fall when they actually started the job that they have been contracted for the better times were clear on the horizon. But then in August Peg and Robert were eating together in a restaurant. When a detective came up to the table and told Robert, he had to pay a thousand dollars in back alimony or he would be taken into custody. Neither he nor Peg had the money and peg was horrified that Robert hadn't been using the money she had been giving him for his alimony shoes embarrassed to be put in this position in public, and they had to ask their new bosses at the guild for alone to get Robert released from custody. They got past this incident, although Peg was the one who paid back the loan from her pay, not Robert, and then they went on touring sir

and the fall in once they were on the road. The couples relationship really rapidly declined. Roberts drinking got far worse and one night he assaulted peg in their who tone room. She had in bed, and he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her out of bed and then through were on the ground, and then he picked her up again by her hair and this sort of continued in this cycle. The hotel detective responded to her scream and she pact all of her things and move to another room. She was pretty much done at that point, Robert sobered up and begged her to take him back forgive him and she did, but the behaviour continued. But when the guilds me,

judgment found out about all of this. Robert was fired and he was black listed on Broadway peg. However, continued with the company for the rest of the tour Robert moved out, the California to find work and when the guilds tour got to LOS Angeles, he showed up at the theatre after a matinee performance he was drunk and he was barred from entering, but this also trapped. All of the actors inside while he ranted outside Peg, spoke to Robert at the door promised to meet him the following day on the condition that he be sober and then called an attorney to begin a legal separation. The following day. She met him as promised and told him that their marriage was over. Peg was quickly granted the divorce that she sought and she felt tat. She was free afterward.

Yeah. She basically testified and, like you lied to me from day one he abuse me. This is not a real marriage and they were like guess. We all agree that the tour continued and even flourished after all of this madness, but as it wound down peg kind of found herself, the victim of Roberts bad Savior in another way, her contract with the guild was not renewed, even though she done a phenomenal job because of fears that Robert my once again show up and make a scene and those divorce proceedings had been covered in the papers in the theater just did not want any more bad press like that. So Peg decided that,

We had the Hollywood and spend some time with her family, though, by the end of the summer of nineteen twenty nine, she was really struggling. She was twenty one. She had had success and then had this big mess erupt and she was depressed and she was unsure of her future Walter. Hampton offered here a ray of light when he asked her to join his tour of Sherlock Holmes was going to be actor William Gillette's last tour. He was coming out of retirement to do it and it opened on November fifteen nineteen, twenty nine in Springfield Massachusetts, the tour lasted for seven months and it was a massive success. It wrapped up in New Jersey on May twelfth. Nineteen thirty peg has been invited to join the Lakewood players and residence at the colony resort that summer, she spent the fall visiting her family in California and returned to New York at the beginning of nineteen thirty one. She immediately start in the play. She means business, which only ran for eight shows, but the theatre Guild hired her next for production of

married which opened in March in it fairly well, but this was her last show with the guild, as the scandal of Roberts abuse still lingered Then the company but Purler contract rules Peg had to be cast. In one of their New York shows after fulfilling her touring date. So it was they really wanted her, but they legally had to hire her for something she spent the summer of nineteen thirty one back with the Lakewood players and had a season of well regarded performances at the resort. Among them, I'm have been a production of a play called just to remind you, which was then stage for Broadway head was asked to be in the Broadway show, so she cut her summer season with liquid shorts to take the job, but New York audiences didn't love the show the way the resort crowd had and it lasted for just a dozen performances before being pulled. After a few months with no work peg played Amy in a revival of little women,

then she moved on to a show that was called son of Satan, which was actually canceled in January. One thousand nine hundred and thirty two before even opened it just was played by problems. Pig was in cast in Alice, sit by the fire, which was written by Peter PAN, author Jm Barrie and it starts stage Legend Laurette Taylor, who was lighted by critics, but she had a drink problem which led to cancelled, shows and ultimately, the cancellation of the entire run, which had no shortage of paying customers, but they just couldn't keep it going with any sort of consistency, and that was the last Broadway play of PIG and whistles career she, once again crossed the country to Hollywood to appear at an l, a production of the mad hopes in May of nineteen thirty two hours alongside Billy Burke,

people mostly now as Glinda the good which and Humphrey Bogart the theatre at the LOS Angeles premier overflowed with viewers forced to stand on opening night. It had sixteen hundred seats, but there were two thousand people in the audience. All three of the stars got great reviews and a Broadway run of the show was planned, but then it had a problem when Billy Burke was, ass than a film, in LOS Angeles and had to pull out of the stage play peg was soon offered. A role in the film is well called thirteen women at our Kayo pictures and she had thought originally he was going to be in the same picture is Billy Burke, which was a bill of divorcement, but the role that He was up for ended up being given to Catherine, Hepburn and so pegs one picture contract. Which actually made her one of the radio picture. Starlets was used instead to cast her for the thirteen women. And the film features a woman plotting to murder. Twelve of her former schoolmates using supernatural powers

movie, was a mess because it ended up being heavily edited and twelve minutes of pig screen time were cut, not left her in it for only four minutes and change. Her character. Storyline had involved a lesbian relationship and it was all removed from the final film, thirteen women was made before the nineteen thirty four haze code, that dictated the bounds of morality that can be portrayed in film, but it still fell victim to mounting tensions between studios in the studio relations Committee about variety. In the end, there were only eight women in the film, although it kept the original title of thirteen women shortly after that on September, fourteenth peg and see whether actresses, Phyllis, Frazier and Harriet Hagman were dropped from the archaic starlets on September. Sixteen one thousand nine hundred and thirty two peg told her aunt and uncle that she was going out to buy a book at the drugstore and then to meet up with some friends, and she did not come home at night.

But her family was it worried. She had state over it. Friends houses before when they had all been out late, chooses meeting up a girlfriends and hanging out, but she also didn't come home next day, either and Jane Round started calling her friends to find out that none of them had seen her. On Sundays September, Eighteenth, a woman found the LOS Angeles police Department and said that she had been hiking near the Hollywood land sign when she saw a woman's jacket and not far away. There was a purse with what appeared to be a suicide note. She also thought she could see a body down below the sign on the mountain. The woman told the officer on the call that she did not want any publicity and that she had wrapped up the items and place them out.

The Hollywood police station the collar hung up before giving a name. The Hollywood precinct was called in. The bundle mentioned by the anonymous collar was found outside the Hollywood land sign on Mount Lee in the Santa Monica mountains was erected in nineteen. Twenty three peg was actually fifteen then, and she and her brothers had watched its massive letters, get hauled up their street on the way to be installed. And the sign was intended initially as a way to advertise a real estate development in the Hollywood hills, the letters each thirty feet wide and forty three feet tall related by four thousand bulbs, and they were intended to stay in place for a year and a half, because that was how long the developers expected it to take

So all the available lots and then they just plan to take down the sign the police investigated. They recovered the body of the young woman and determined she had climbed a ladder that was behind the age of the sign and then jumped from the top of the letter she wasn't identified by the police, though her suicide note and a brief description were published in the paper with the hopes that they would figure out her identity. Based on that, when Jane Ross read the description and information about the note which was signed p, she knew that it was Peg Charles made the formal identification in an almost immediately headlines and articles started to rewrite peg, as this Wanna be film star who had failed, ignoring completely that she had been a successful stage actress. In addition, Lee rumours circulating that in a fit of desperation she had posed for nude photo shortly before her death and then regretted it possibly leading to her state of mind,

but while she did have a series of professional photos taken shortly before her death. There's no ever than any of them were at all racy a semi nude no of a model who was not pig and whistle, was incorrectly labelled as her in a book about Hollywood, and that has led to ongoing muddling of this particular matter. Pegs funeral was held on September twentieth, her body was cremated and her ashes were entered. In Ohio in January of nineteen, thirty, three and since her death It has taken on another role, at least in the public consciousness, that of a ghost who haunts the Hollywood sign in the eighties. Sixty years since pegs death, numerous reports of an apparition team, thirty's apparel have been made generally all centred around the Hollywood sign or the surrounding Hollywood hills. Some people, allegedly also male Gardini is which was the scent of pegs favorite perfume. The h in Hollywood, sign fell, in nineteen, forty nine fuelling.

Regulation, that it was the work of pig spirit, but really that's fine, as you recall, wasn't meant to last even two years, let alone the twenty five that it had up to that point and after the letter fell, the department of Parks and recreation turned responsibility, sign over to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the h was repaired, the land was removed to make the landmark represent the city rather than the residential development that has instigated its installation and since then, let in the seventies the entire sign was replaced. And, of course, there is ongoing debate about pegs death, whether it was really a suicide and who this mystery woman was called the police to some degree, at least in the minds of some key It remains a history mystery you had the corners finding didn't indicate that there had been foul player that something else had gone on. She had shattered her pelvis when she fell

Those are the injuries that ultimately killed her, so young people up to speculate which I get, but it's really not much evidence for that. In non spooky, appearances, peg story and its tragic and have shown up in all kinds of media as a sort of shorthand reference to the cruelty of Hollywood and its ability to destroy the lives of hopeful performers, but that doesn't really tell her. Story. She had a lot of other things going on. One of the things that sometimes gets brought up as something that may have led her to feel quite despondent. Is that her husband Robert after they had divorced, got married again very quickly, but that marriage was very successful and he actually kind of put his life together and was selling plays. And then she had learned that he was getting kind of successful and that may be had impact at her. There are also some discussions of of the fact that her moving around so much had led some of her friends to being a sticky position in terms of light

She had rented rooms with them or apartments with them, and then she had to leave and they were left kind of holding the bang and she felt very guilty about it like there. There are real. Things that go into a person's mental make up that are not always as simple as she tried something and it didn't work, and then everything fell apart, even though she was still very young when she died. She had already had a very lengthy and complex life and career, so I wanted to give her a little more attention, rather than just being like a two line story about a failed starlit which isn't really accurate at all. I'm doing a very quick, since this episode is a little longer, a very quick postcard round up the verses from our listener Jessica, who sent us a beautiful postcard Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum, which continues to be a popular topic for the show and sometimes comes up on our honour

episodes it's a really cool postcard, because it is a a blueprint diagram of the museum which I love blueprint. So I love it. Thank you just go. The other is from our listener. I believe in it Adrian. This is one of those ones that has fallen victim to being in the mail programme and it looks like possibly got reigned on it is, it is one She mentions that, because of our Iceland episode that Tracy did on correct me, I'm pronunciation is high me. I think it's more like hey me, gap She ended up booking a fairy to the islands, even though she I have a plan to go over there while she was travelling and she ended up loving it and thought it was amazing. So thank you too Tracy. She sent us a lovely postcard of what appears to be a puffin with much efficient its mouth and it is super cute. So thank you to both as listeners. Also, if you would like to write to us, you can do so in history pike.

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