profile image

Linda Darnell

Oct 16, 1923 - Apr 10, 1965 (41 years old) in Dallas, Texas, USA

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

Known For

poster
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
poster
Burke's Law
Monica Crenshaw
poster
Climax!
Helen Randall
poster
77 Sunset Strip
Zina Felice
poster
This Is Your Life
Self
poster
Screen Director's Playhouse
Ellen Barber
poster
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Lily Martyn
poster
My Darling Clementine
Chihuahua
poster
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
poster
The Song of Bernadette
The Virgin Mary (uncredited)

Credits

Images

image
image
image
image
image
image