Linda Darnell
Actor, Film actor
1923 – 1965
Who was Linda Darnell?
Linda Darnell 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. Furthermore, she won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours and A Letter to Three Wives.
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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- Born
- Oct 16, 1923
Dallas - Also known as
- Monetta Eloyse Darnell
- Tweedles
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- J. Peverell Marley
(1944 - 1952) - Merle Roy Robertson
(1960 - 1963/11/23) - Phillip Liebmann
(1954/02/25 - 1955/12/02) - Giulliano Scicolone
(1956 - 1960)
- J. Peverell Marley
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University High School
- Sunset High School
- Died
- Apr 10, 1965
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on July 23, 2013
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