Linda Darnell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-10-16 (42 years old)

Deathday

1965-04-10

Place of Birth

Dallas, Texas, USA

Linda Darnell

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...

Acting

1946

1944

It Happened Tomorrow

as Sylvia Smith-Stevens

1952

Night Without Sleep

as Julie Bannon

1953

Second Chance

as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair

1940

The Mark of Zorro

as Lolita Quintero

1945

Fallen Angel

as Stella

1948

Unfaithfully Yours

as Daphne de Carter

1949

Slattery's Hurricane

as Mrs. Aggie Hobson

1950

No Way Out

as Edie Johnson

1945

Hangover Square

as Netta Longdon

1999

1944

Buffalo Bill

as Dawn Starlight

1941

Blood and Sand

as Carmen Espinosa

1949

A Letter to Three Wives

as Lora Mae Hollingsway

1951

The 13th Letter

as Denise Turner

1941

Rise and Shine

as Louise Murray

1940

Star Dust

as Carolyn Sayres

1982

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1944

Summer Storm

as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin

1957

Zero Hour!

as Ellen Stryker

1939

Day-time Wife

as Jane Norton

1940

Brigham Young

as Zina Webb - The Outsider

1956

Dakota Incident

as Amy Clarke

1950

Two Flags West

as Elena Kenniston

1947

Forever Amber

as Amber St. Clair

1952

Blackbeard, the Pirate

as Edwina Mansfield

1940

Chad Hanna

as Caroline Tridd Hanna

1952

Saturday Island

as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe

1948

The Walls of Jericho

as Algeria Wedge

1942

1946

Centennial Summer

as Edith Rogers

1944

Sweet and Low-Down

as Trudy Wilson

1954

This Is My Love

as Vida Dove

1939

Hotel for Women

as Marcia Bromely

1965

Black Spurs

as Sadie

1949

Everybody Does It

as Cecil Carver

1951

1943

City Without Men

as Nancy Johnson

1955

It Happens in Roma

as Renata Adorni

1945

The Great John L.

as Anne Livingston

1951

The Lady Pays Off

as Evelyn Walsh Warren

1954

Angels of Darkness

as Lola Baldi

1945

The All-Star Bond Rally

as Self - Pinup Girl

1950

The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

1943

The Song of Bernadette

as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)

1956

White Corridors

as Ellen Barber

1944

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