Linda Darnell

Born: 1923-10-16

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


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My Darling Clementine

as Chihuahua
Released: 1946-10-17

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of...

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The Song of Bernadette

as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-21

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful...

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The Mark of Zorro

as Lolita Quintero
Released: 1940-11-08

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under...

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A Letter to Three Wives

as Lora Mae Hollingsway
Released: 1949-01-20

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is...

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Blood and Sand

as Carmen Espinosa
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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Fallen Angel

as Stella
Released: 1945-11-15

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging...

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Anna and the King of Siam

as Tuptim
Released: 1946-08-11

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

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No Way Out

as Edie Johnson - Mrs. John Biddle
Released: 1950-08-16

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies...

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Unfaithfully Yours

as Daphne de Carter
Released: 1948-12-10

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually...

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Two Flags West

as Elena Kenniston
Released: 1950-10-12

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local...

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Forever Amber

as Amber St. Clair
Released: 1947-10-10

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires...

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Dakota Incident

as Amy Clarke
Released: 1956-07-23

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them...

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The Walls of Jericho

as Algeria Wedge
Released: 1948-11-22

In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another...

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It Happened Tomorrow

as Sylvia Smith-Stevens
Released: 1944-03-31

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...

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Zero Hour!

as Ellen Stryker
Released: 1957-11-13

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food...

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Hangover Square

as Netta Longdon
Released: 1945-02-07

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife...

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Blackbeard, the Pirate

as Edwina Mansfield
Released: 1952-12-24

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

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The 13th Letter

as Denise Turner
Released: 1951-02-21

A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege...

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Second Chance

as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair
Released: 1953-07-18

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

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Buffalo Bill

as Dawn Starlight
Released: 1944-04-02

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights...

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The Great John L.

as Anne Livingston
Released: 1945-05-25

Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric...

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Black Spurs

as Sadie
Released: 1965-05-28

A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to...

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Show-Business at War

as Self
Released: 1943-05-21

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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Slattery's Hurricane

as Mrs. Aggie Hobson
Released: 1949-08-11

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his...

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It Happens in Roma

as Renata Adorni
Released: 1955-05-24

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located...

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Chad Hanna

as Caroline Tridd Hanna
Released: 1940-12-25

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he...

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Brigham Young

as Zina Webb - The Outsider
Released: 1940-09-27

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to...

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The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1950-07-13

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The...

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Saturday Island

as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe
Released: 1952-03-20

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during World War II, military nurse...

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Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)
Released: 1982-12-31

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World...

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Centennial Summer

as Edith Rogers
Released: 1946-07-10

In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to...

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Summer Storm

as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin
Released: 1944-07-14

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life,...

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Sweet and Low-Down

as Trudy Wilson
Released: 1944-09-21

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are...

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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

as Virginia Clemm
Released: 1942-08-28

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

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Star Dust

as Carolyn Sayres
Released: 1940-04-06

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to...

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Night Without Sleep

as Julie Bannon
Released: 1952-09-26

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he...

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The Guy Who Came Back

as Dee Shane
Released: 1951-08-16

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married...

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Everybody Does It

as Cecil Carver
Released: 1949-10-24

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures...

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Day-time Wife

as Jane Norton
Released: 1939-11-24

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary,...

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The All-Star Bond Rally

as Self - Pinup Girl
Released: 1945-05-10

Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds...

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Rise and Shine

as Louise Murray
Released: 1941-11-21

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking...

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The Lady Pays Off

as Evelyn Walsh Warren
Released: 1951-10-04

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas,...

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City Without Men

as Nancy Johnson
Released: 1943-01-14

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near...

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Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 1999-08-24

Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite...

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This Is My Love

as Vida Dove
Released: 1954-10-27

A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.

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Hotel for Women

as Marcia Bromely
Released: 1939-08-03

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

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Angels of Darkness

as Lola Baldi
Released: 1954-01-27

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to...

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Burke's Law

as Monica Crenshaw
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Climax!

as Helen Randall
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Zina Felice
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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This Is Your Life

as Self
First aired: 1952-10-01

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Lily Martyn
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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Screen Director's Playhouse

as Ellen Barber
First aired: 1955-10-05

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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