Linda Darnell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1923-10-16
Day of Death
1965-04-10 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
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
Acting
(1999)
Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel
as Self (Archive Footage)
(1982)
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
(1965)
Black Spurs
as Sadie
(1957)
Zero Hour!
as Ellen Stryker
(1957)
Homeward Borne
as Meg Lyttleton
(1956)
Dakota Incident
as Amy Clarke
(1956)
White Corridors
as Ellen Barber
(1955)
It Happens in Roma
as Renata Adorni
(1954)
Angels of Darkness
as Lola Baldi
(1954)
This Is My Love
as Vida Dove
(1953)
Second Chance
as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair
(1952)
Saturday Island
as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe
(1952)
Night Without Sleep
as Julie Bannon
(1952)
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Edwina Mansfield
(1951)
The Lady Pays Off
as Evelyn Walsh Warren
(1951)
The 13th Letter
as Denise Turner
(1951)
The Guy Who Came Back
as Dee Shane
(1950)
No Way Out
as Edie Johnson
(1950)
Two Flags West
as Elena Kenniston
(1950)
The Costume Designer
as Self (archive footage)
(1949)
Slattery's Hurricane
as Mrs. Aggie Hobson
(1949)
A Letter to Three Wives
as Lora Mae Hollingsway
(1949)
Everybody Does It
as Cecil Carver
(1948)
The Walls of Jericho
as Algeria Wedge
(1948)
Unfaithfully Yours
as Daphne de Carter
(1947)
Forever Amber
as Amber St. Clair
(1946)
Centennial Summer
as Edith Rogers
(1946)
My Darling Clementine
as Chihuahua
(1946)
Anna and the King of Siam
as Tuptim
(1945)
The Great John L.
as Anne Livingston
(1945)
The All-Star Bond Rally
as Self - Pinup Girl
(1945)
Hangover Square
as Netta Longdon
(1945)
Fallen Angel
as Stella
(1944)
It Happened Tomorrow
as Sylvia Smith-Stevens
(1944)
Summer Storm
as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin
(1944)
Buffalo Bill
as Dawn Starlight
(1944)
Sweet and Low-Down
as Trudy Wilson
(1944)
G.I. Journal
as Self
(1943)
The Song of Bernadette
as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
(1943)
City Without Men
as Nancy Johnson
(1943)
Show-Business at War
as Self
(1942)
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Virginia Clemm
(1941)
Rise and Shine
as Louise Murray
(1941)
Blood and Sand
as Carmen Espinosa
(1940)
Star Dust
as Carolyn Sayres
(1940)
The Mark of Zorro
as Lolita Quintero
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Zina Webb - The Outsider
(1940)
Chad Hanna
as Caroline Tridd Hanna
(1939)
Hotel for Women
as Marcia Bromely
(1939)
Day-time Wife
as Jane Norton