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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 16, 1923
Place of Birth:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Linda 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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
| 1965 | Black Spurs | Sadie |
| 1957 | Zero Hour! | Ellen Stryker |
| 1956 | Dakota Incident | Amy Clarke |
| 1956 | White Corridors | Ellen Barber |
| 1955 | It Happens in Roma | Renata Adorni |
| 1954 | This Is My Love | Vida Dove |
| 1954 | Angels of Darkness | Lola Baldi |
| 1953 | Second Chance | Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair |
| 1952 | Night Without Sleep | Julie Bannon |
| 1952 | Blackbeard, the Pirate | Edwina Mansfield |
| 1952 | Saturday Island | Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe |
| 1951 | The 13th Letter | Denise Turner |
| 1951 | The Guy Who Came Back | Dee Shane |
| 1951 | The Lady Pays Off | Evelyn Walsh Warren |
| 1950 | No Way Out | Edie Johnson |
| 1950 | Two Flags West | Elena Kenniston |
| 1950 | The Costume Designer | Self (archive footage) |
| 1949 | Slattery's Hurricane | Mrs. Aggie Hobson |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | Lora Mae Hollingsway |
| 1949 | Everybody Does It | Cecil Carver |
| 1948 | Unfaithfully Yours | Daphne de Carter |
| 1948 | The Walls of Jericho | Algeria Wedge |
| 1947 | Forever Amber | Amber St. Clair |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Chihuahua |
| 1946 | Anna and the King of Siam | Tuptim |
| 1946 | Centennial Summer | Edith Rogers |
| 1945 | Fallen Angel | Stella |
| 1945 | Hangover Square | Netta Longdon |
| 1945 | The Great John L. | Anne Livingston |
| 1945 | The All-Star Bond Rally | Self - Pinup Girl |
| 1944 | It Happened Tomorrow | Sylvia Smith-Stevens |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | Dawn Starlight |
| 1944 | Summer Storm | Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin |
| 1944 | Sweet and Low-Down | Trudy Wilson |
| 1944 | G.I. Journal | Self |
| 1943 | City Without Men | Nancy Johnson |
| 1943 | Show-Business at War | Self |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette | The Virgin Mary (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Virginia Clemm |
| 1941 | Blood and Sand | Carmen Espinosa |
| 1941 | Rise and Shine | Louise Murray |
| 1940 | The Mark of Zorro | Lolita Quintero |
| 1940 | Star Dust | Carolyn Sayres |
| 1940 | Brigham Young | Zina Webb - The Outsider |
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | Caroline Tridd Hanna |
| 1939 | Day-time Wife | Jane Norton |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | Marcia Bromely |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Monica Crenshaw |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Zina Felice |
| 1955 | Hollywood Preview | Self |
| 1955 | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Lily Martyn |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Ellen Barber |
| 1954 | Climax! | Helen Randall |
| 1952 | This Is Your Life | Self |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |