- In January, 1925, while at Jewett, she was performing under the direction of Blanche Yurka in Ibsen's "The Wild Duck." Peg played Hedvig. In Hedvig's suicide scene, there was a young girl in the audience with her mother, Ruthie. When this girl, who was the same age as Peg, saw Peg's remarkable performance, she determined to pursue acting with all her heart. She told her mother as they left the theater, "I want to be exactly like Peg Entwistle!" This young girl would for many years mention in interviews and her biography that this play and Peg Entwistle as the driving force to her becoming an actress. Two years later, while Peg was headed for stardom on Broadway, this girl was hired by Blanche Yurka to play Hedvig. Her name was Bette Davis.
- An urban legend says that, in a cruel twist of irony, her uncle received a letter from the Beverly Hills Playhouse, two days after her death. She was offered the lead role in a play about a woman driven to suicide. However, despite being a popular story, no actual evidence of such an event exists.
- Ex-stepmother of Brian Keith.
- Peg was cremated and her ashes interred in her father's grave. Oak Hill Cemetery, Glendale, Ohio - Section 12, Lot 27, Grave 10.
- Committed suicide 2 days after the release of her only film, Thirteen Women (1932).
- Allan Mowbray, Sidney Toler, Hardie Albright, Walter Byron, Frances Goodrich and Grayce Hampton attended the Episcopal funeral ceremony for Peg in Hollywood on September 20th, 1932.
- It is often told that the Los Angeles Times dubbed Peg as "The Hollywood Sign Girl," when they published the suicide note a day before Peg's body was identified, but this is not true. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner came up with the nickname.
- Daughter of actor Robert Entwistle and niece of actor Harold Entwistle.
- She and her brothers were adopted by their Uncle Charles and Aunt Jane. Jane gave up her career as an actress in order to provide a "mother" for the children. Charles Entwistle soon retired from managing actors and theaters around the world in order to remain close to home so Peg, Milton and Robert could have a "father" figure. Charles and his friend Walter Hampden had Peg enrolled in the Jewett Repertory after she developed an interest in the stage.
- Her ghost is supposed to haunt the "H" of the Hollywood sign. Witnesses who visited the location have reported that cries can be heard there.
- She was considered a great stage actress, so much that her performances in rather weak stage plays were praised by critics.
- Looked at least 15 years older than her 24 years.
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