to the back of the train and jumps to her death. Cast Irene Dunne as Laura Stanhope Ricardo Cortez as Police Sergeant Barry Clive Jill Esmond as Jo Turner Myrna Loy as Ursula Georgi Mary Duncan as June Raskob Kay Johnson as Helen Dawson Frye Florence Eldridge as Grace Coombs C. Henry Gordon as Swami Yogadachi Peg Entwistle as Hazel Clay Cousins Harriet Hagman as May Raskob Edward Pawley as Burns, Laura's chauffeur Blanche Friderici as Miss Kirsten, headmistress Wally Albright as Bobby Stanhope Phyllis Fraser as Twelfth Woman (scenes deleted) Betty Furness as Thirteenth Woman (scenes deleted) Lloyd Ingraham as Inspector (uncredited) Production notes Thirteen Women features the only film appearance of actress Peg Entwistle. Entwistle became despondent over her career and jumped to her death from the Hollywood Sign on September 16, 1932. The film premiered in New York on October 15 (almost exactly a month after her suicide), and in Los Angeles in November. Entwistle had a supporting role in the original cut, with scenes running approximately sixteen minutes. After the film performed poorly for test audiences, her screen time was cut to four minutes. The character played by Entwistle, that of Hazel Cousins, is a married woman in the film, who kills her husband and goes to prison. In the book, Hazel is a virgin who remains so simply because she is considered too beautiful; men are either too intimidated to approach her, assume she is married or engaged or believe that she will break their heart. Hazel eventually becomes a lesbian after she is seduced by the wife of the doctor treating her for tuberculosis, and starves herself to death in a sanitarium while suffering the heartache of having been abandoned by her lover Martha. In both the book and movie, May and June Raskob (played by Harriet Hagman and Mary Duncan) are twin sisters who work in a circus, but in the book they are overweight sideshow attractions rather than photogenic trapeze artists as in the film. In this film, actor Edward J. Pawley received his first screen kiss (from Myrna Loy). He appeared in over 50 movies during his 10-year career in Hollywood, playing mostly "bad guy" roles. Home media On February 21, 2012, the 59-minute edit of Thirteen Women was released on manufactured-on-demand DVD through the Warner Archive Collection. References External links 1932 films 1930s psychological thriller films American mystery thriller films