Linda Darnell
Actor
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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Filmography
The Mark of Zorro
as Lolita Quintero 1940
A Letter to Three Wives
as Lora Mae Hollingsway 1948
The Song of Bernadette
as The Virgin Mary (uncredited) 1943
Fallen Angel
as Stella 1945
Unfaithfully Yours
as Daphne de Carter 1948
No Way Out
as Edie Johnson 1950
Hangover Square
as Netta Longdon 1945
It Happened Tomorrow
as Sylvia Smith-Stevens 1944
Blood and Sand
as Carmen Espinosa 1941
Zero Hour!
as Ellen Stryker 1957
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Edwina Mansfield 1952
Anna and the King of Siam
as Tuptim 1946
Buffalo Bill
as Dawn Starlight 1944
Forever Amber
as Amber St. Clair 1947
Two Flags West
as Elena Kenniston 1950
Second Chance
as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair 1953