Linda Darnell
Born: 1923-10-16 in Dallas, Texas, USA
Died: 1965-04-10
Known For: Acting
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
1999
- Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel as Self (Archive Footage)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1965
- Black Spurs as Sadie
1963
- Burke's Law as Monica Crenshaw
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Zina Felice
1957
- Wagon Train as Dora Gray Fogelberry
- Homeward Borne as Meg Lyttleton
- Zero Hour! as Ellen Stryker
1956
- Dakota Incident as Amy Clarke
- White Corridors as Ellen Barber
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Lily Martyn
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Ellen Barber
- Hollywood Preview as Self
- It Happens in Roma as Renata Adorni
1954
- Climax! as Helen Randall
- Angels of Darkness as Lola Baldi
- This Is My Love as Vida Dove
1953
- Second Chance as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair
1952
- Saturday Island as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Blackbeard, the Pirate as Edwina Mansfield
- Night Without Sleep as Julie Bannon
1951
- The 13th Letter as Denise Turner
- The Lady Pays Off as Evelyn Walsh Warren
- The Guy Who Came Back as Dee Shane
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- No Way Out as Edie Johnson
- Two Flags West as Elena Kenniston
- The Costume Designer as Self (archive footage)
1949
- A Letter to Three Wives as Lora Mae Hollingsway
- Slattery's Hurricane as Mrs. Aggie Hobson
- Everybody Does It as Cecil Carver
1948
- Unfaithfully Yours as Daphne de Carter
- The Walls of Jericho as Algeria Wedge
1947
- Forever Amber as Amber St. Clair
1946
- Centennial Summer as Edith Rogers
- My Darling Clementine as Chihuahua
- Anna and the King of Siam as Tuptim
1945
- Hangover Square as Netta Longdon
- Fallen Angel as Stella
- The All-Star Bond Rally as Self - Pinup Girl
- The Great John L. as Anne Livingston
1944
- Summer Storm as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin
- Buffalo Bill as Dawn Starlight
- It Happened Tomorrow as Sylvia Smith-Stevens
- Sweet and Low-Down as Trudy Wilson
- G.I. Journal as Self
1943
- The Song of Bernadette as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
- City Without Men as Nancy Johnson
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Virginia Clemm
1941
- Rise and Shine as Louise Murray
- Blood and Sand as Carmen Espinosa
1940
- Star Dust as Carolyn Sayres
- Brigham Young as Zina Webb - The Outsider
- The Mark of Zorro as Lolita Quintero
- Chad Hanna as Caroline Tridd Hanna
1939
- Day-time Wife as Jane Norton
- Hotel for Women as Marcia Bromely