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Linda Darnell

Acting Born Oct 16, 1923 Dallas, Texas, USA 24 credits

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

Wagon Train

as Dora Gray Fogelberry

Burke's Law

as Monica Crenshaw

Climax!

as Helen Randall
Film

Do the Right Thing

as Zina Felice
Film

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Self
Film

Halloween: Resurrection

2002
Film

My Darling Clementine

as Chihuahua

Full filmography

  • Wagon Train (1957) as Dora Gray Fogelberry
  • Burke's Law (1963) as Monica Crenshaw
  • Climax! (1954) as Helen Randall
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self
  • 77 Sunset Strip (1958) as Zina Felice
  • The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955) as Lily Martyn
  • This Is Your Life (1952) as Self
  • Screen Director's Playhouse (1955) as Ellen Barber
  • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
  • The Mark of Zorro (1940) as Lolita Quintero
  • My Darling Clementine (1946) as Chihuahua
  • Fallen Angel (1945) as Stella
  • No Way Out (1950) as Edie Johnson
  • Hollywood Preview (1955) as Self
  • A Letter to Three Wives (1949) as Lora Mae Hollingsway
  • Blood and Sand (1941) as Carmen Espinosa
  • Brigham Young (1940) as Zina Webb - The Outsider
  • Zero Hour! (1957) as Ellen Stryker
  • The Song of Bernadette (1943) as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
  • Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) as Edwina Mansfield
  • Unfaithfully Yours (1948) as Daphne de Carter
  • The Great John L. (1945) as Anne Livingston
  • It Happened Tomorrow (1944) as Sylvia Smith-Stevens
  • Summer Storm (1944) as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin