The Sad Life of Miss PEGGY PAGE
Giving Credit Where It's Due The Sad Life of Miss PEGGY PAGE At long last I’ve been able to add new information on Charlie Chaplin’s frequent Keystone leading lady and mystery girl of 1914. For nearly a hundred years she’s been completely overlooked and sadly unidentified to the general public until twelve years ago when one diligent researcher put the potential name of Helen Carruthers to her face. Now presumedly identified, further stories of Helen’s near-fatal suicide attempt in Oregon in May 1915 turned up and, ten years later in the summer of 1925, her tragic (accidental or suicidal?) demise — as young Baroness Helen (nee Carruthers) zur Muehlen — from a window at the Ritz-Carlton in New York City. Quite sad for a sweet girl from San Antonio, Texas. Yet whatever few newspaper photos I had access to of Helen Carruthers were often dark and impossible to compare to for verification with the films of the movie actress. Several years ago I ...