Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

  • Birthday: 1923-10-16
  • Deathday: 1965-04-10
  • Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Also know as: Monetta Eloyse Darnell

Biography

Linda Darnell  (October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American film actress. Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s. She rose to fame with co-starring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947). Furthermore, she won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours (1948) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). Notorious for her unstable personal life, Darnell was incapable of dealing with Hollywood, and landed in a downward spiral of alcoholism, unsuccessful marriages and highly publicized or scandalous affairs. She failed to receive recognition from the industry and its critics, and disappeared from the screen in the 1950s. Darnell died from burns sustained in a house fire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Darnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

The 13th Letter

1951

As Denise Turner

Star Dust

1940

As Carolyn Sayres

Dakota Incident

1956

As Amy Clarke

Forever Amber

1947

As Amber St. Clair

Saturday Island

1952

As Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942

As Virginia Clemm

This Is My Love

1954

As Vida Dove

Hotel for Women

1939

As Marcia Bromely

City Without Men

1943

As Nancy Johnson

It Happens in Roma

1955

As Renata Adorni

The Great John L.

1945

As Anne Livingston

Angels of Darkness

1954

As Lola Baldi

The Lady Pays Off

1951

As Evelyn Walsh Warren

My Darling Clementine

1946

As Chihuahua

It Happened Tomorrow

1944

As Sylvia Smith-Stevens

Night Without Sleep

1952

As Julie Bannon

Second Chance

1953

As Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair

The Mark of Zorro

1940

As Lolita Quintero

Slattery's Hurricane

1949

As Mrs. Aggie Hobson

Unfaithfully Yours

1948

As Daphne de Carter

No Way Out

1950

As Edie Johnson - Mrs. John Biddle

Hangover Square

1945

As Netta Longdon

Blood and Sand

1941

As Carmen Espinosa

A Letter to Three Wives

1949

As Lora Mae Hollingsway

Summer Storm

1944

As Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin

Day-time Wife

1939

As Jane Norton

Zero Hour!

1957

As Ellen Stryker

Brigham Young

1940

As Zina Webb - The Outsider

Two Flags West

1950

As Elena Kenniston

Blackbeard, the Pirate

1952

As Edwina Mansfield

The Walls of Jericho

1948

As Algeria Wedge

Sweet and Low-Down

1944

As Trudy Wilson

Black Spurs

1965

As Sadie

Everybody Does It

1949

As Cecil Carver

Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

1999

As Self (Archive Footage)

Fallen Angel

1945

As Stella

Buffalo Bill

1944

As Dawn Starlight

Rise and Shine

1941

As Louise Murray

Chad Hanna

1940

As Caroline Tridd Hanna

Centennial Summer

1946

As Edith Rogers

The Guy Who Came Back

1951

As Dee Shane

The Costume Designer

1950

As Self (archive footage)

The All-Star Bond Rally

1945

As Self - Pinup Girl

Showbiz Goes to War

1982

As (archive footage)

The Song of Bernadette

1943

As The Virgin Mary (uncredited)

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