Brown and the Hollywood Sign.' "Īnger talked in a quiet, conversational voice, as if they were oft-told tales for him - and indeed, they were. Years later, Dory Previn was to turn the whole story into her song, 'Mary C. Later, to discourage others, they took down the letters spelling 'land' - so there wouldn't be a 13th letter, you see. One day she climbed up into the hills, quite a feat in itself, and jumped off the final 'D' in 'Hollywoodland.' It was the 13th letter, you see, and she'd just played the girl who got bumped off in 'Thirteen Women.' She fell to her death. "She was a sweet little girl - Bette Davis was quite fond of her - but her career went nowhere but down. "I'm just getting to that," Anger said, sipping at a beer. Two or three people at the bar in Riccardo's drifted closer, their curiosity aroused, perhaps, by Anger's green suit with the buttons made of large replicas of spiders. That's the big dilapidated wooden sign up in the Hollywood hills - only then it spelled 'Hollywoodland' instead of Hollywood, and therein lies the tale." She was the girl who killed herself by jumping off the Hollywood sign. "Wasn't she a beauty? And here's Peg Entwistle, another tragic case.
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