William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1
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Poster for The Professor (1881)
Gillette in Secret Service
Theatre poster for Held by the Enemy at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in 1887
Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women, w
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…Massachusetts. Scheduled for two seasons, it was eventually extended into 1932. The first run of the tour included in the cast Theatre Guild actress Peg Entwistle as Gillette's female lead. Entwistle was the tragic young actress who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywoodland sign in 1932. In the New…
Entwistle from Just to Remind You theatrical production (1929)
Entwistle in The Wild Duck (1925)
Entwistle and William Gillette in his farewell appearance as Sherlock Holmes, the 1929 Broadway production
Peg Entwistle at her Hollywood home several days before her death