There were only 11 actresses in the movie, not 13. Scenes involving the remaining two, Phyllis Fraser and Betty Furness, ended up on the cutting room floor. Several other roles also were telescoped in the editing process when the film was shortened from its original 73 minutes to 59 minutes for theatrical release.
Peg Entwistle, who played Hazel Clay Cousins, committed suicide, two days after the film's American date of release, Friday, September 16th, 1932. She jumped off the "H" of the Hollywood sign, then "Hollywoodland," on Sunday, September 18th, 1932.
Much of Peg Entwistle's performance was cut from the film in order to excise her character's affair with a female lover, due to the Studio Relations' Committee's enforcement of the Production Code.
Betty Furness's first film role. According to the autobiography "Being and Becoming" by Myrna Loy, Furness also doubled her as a hand model in some close-up scenes. Betty Furness' scenes (as the 13th woman) were cut.
According to film historian William K. Everson, composer Max Steiner previewed a bit of his 1933 musical score for King Kong (1933) in Thirteen Women (1932): "[t]he unique, tense combination of notes that accompanies the shot of the train in one sequence is identical with the theme that he used just prior to Kong's attack on the NY elevated train."
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