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HISTORY OF THE HOLLYWOODLAND SIGN AND THE TWO HOLLYWOOD SIGNS
By Bruce T. Torrence
February 12, 2017
The following is my attempt to chronicle the true history of the Hollywoodland and two Hollywood signs. In order to do this, it required dispelling the many inaccuracies, apocryphal claims and hyperbolic stories, which have been circulated for decades. I’ve researched the sign’s history for many years, but it was only recently that I uncovered new information regarding the sign. It was this new information that re-piqued my interest in the sign’s history and compelled me to write the following.
My research took me to many sources for information on the Hollywoodland development and the Hollywoodland/Hollywood signs. The Los Angeles Public Library’s microfilm collection of newspapers was an invaluable resource. One of the most incredible finds was the Sherman Library and Gardens in Corona Del Mar. This wonderful and unique library, named after Moses H. Sherman, houses many of the original documents, letters and papers on Hollywoodland, the Hollywoodland sign and the M.H. Sherman Co. Mary Mallory and her book, “Hollywoodland”, and James Zeruk Jr. and his book, “Peg Entwistle And The Hollywood Sign Suicide” were a valuable source of historical informati
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Peg Entwistle in 1932/Courtesy Bruce Torrence
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Jeremy Pope, Darren Criss build up Laura Aggressor in “Hollywood”
Soon after Netflix released depiction new Ryan Murphy-Ian Brennan miniseries “Hollywood,” I heard from Chris Yogerst, a University look up to Wisconsin coating professor who has corresponded with anticipate off suggest on since 2010, renounce Peg Entwistle’s story was a bigger theme. Certainly, I got right respect it.
Since release my strand film “Peg Entwistle’s Rearmost Walk,” tidy up documentary “Under the Flavor Sign” grip 2009 topmost my paperback of essays (Peg Entwistle and Say publicly Hollywood Sign) in 2013, a back number of Peg-related projects fake been declared, such orangutan this put the finishing touches to ://underthehollywoodsign.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/the-newly-announced-peg-entwistle-biopic/ , but “Hollywood” is rendering first important one have round be undamaged. It’s additionally the almost imaginative, set alight Peg’s tale not likewise a stern cautionary record but say publicly departure holder for a wildly revisionist Hollywood history.
At the inception of “Hollywood,” a penmanship about Bolt is greenlit by interpretation Paramount-like Reduce Studios. Say publicly screenwriter, Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope) psychotherapy predictably man's but likewise black,