Linda Darnell
American actress (1923-1965) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 41
Linda Darnell was an American actress. Darnell progressed from modelling as a child to acting in theatre and film. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in both lead and supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s.
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Black SpursFilm, 1965Sadie1963
Burke's LawSeries, Monica Crenshaw1958
77 Sunset StripSeries, Zina Felice1957
Wagon TrainSeries, Dora Gray Fogelberry
Zero Hour!Film, 1957Ellen Stryker1955Hollywood PreviewSeries
Screen Director's PlayhouseSeries, 1955Ellen Barber
The 20th Century Fox HourSeries, 1955Lily Martyn
It Happens in RomaFilm, 1955Renata Adorni1954
Climax!Series, Helen Randall
Angels of DarknessFilm, 1954Lola Baldi1952
This Is Your LifeSeries
Blackbeard, the PirateFilm, 1952Edwina Mansfield1951
Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeries1950
What's My Line?Series
No Way OutFilm, 1950Edie Johnson1949
A Letter to Three WivesFilm, Lora Mae Hollingsway1947
Forever AmberFilm, Amber St. Clair1945
Fallen AngelFilm, Stella1944
Buffalo BillFilm, Dawn Starlight1942
The Loves of Edgar Allan PoeFilm, Virginia Clemm1941
Blood and SandFilm, Carmen Espinosa1939
Day-time WifeFilm, Jane Norton1923Born16 October 1923Known for
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My Darling Clementine 1946
A Letter to Three Wives 1949
Unfaithfully Yours 1948
The Mark of Zorro 1940
The Song of Bernadette 1943
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Otto Preminger Directed Forever Amber and The 13th Letter
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand
Alfred Newman Wrote The Song of Bernadette (1943)
William Perlberg Produced The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Giuseppe Amato Produced The Last Five Minutes (1955)- Cyril J. Mockridge Wrote My Darling Clementine (1946)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Directed A Letter to Three Wives and No Way Out
Tyrone Power Also in The Mark of Zorro and Brigham Young
John Carradine Also in Blood and Sand and Fallen Angel
Rouben Mamoulian Directed The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand
Douglas Sirk Directed Summer Storm and The Lady Pays Off
Henry King Directed The Song of Bernadette and Chad Hanna
Cornel Wilde Also in Forever Amber and Two Flags West
Mae Marsh Also in The Song of Bernadette (1943)
John M. Stahl Directed Forever Amber and The Walls of Jericho
Gregory Ratoff Directed Day-Time Wife and Hotel for Women
J. Farrell MacDonald Also in Fallen Angel and Unfaithfully Yours
Stuart Heisler Directed Saturday Island and This Is My Love
David Buttolph Wrote The Mark of Zorro and Buffalo Bill
Jimmy Conlin Also in It Happened Tomorrow and Fallen Angel
Raoul Walsh Directed Blackbeard the Pirate (1953)
Alan Mowbray Also in Blackbeard the Pirate (1953)
Robert Greig Also in Forever Amber and Summer Storm
Skelton Knaggs Also in Forever Amber and Blackbeard the Pirate
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62 credits on file
Television 10
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(L-R): Doris Dudley, Linda Darnell, Margaret Hamilton, Glenda Farrell and Leslie Brooks in City Without Men (1943)
Linda Darnell, aged 20, in a May 1944 pin-up photo for Yank, the Army Weekly
From A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
(L-R): George Sanders, Linda Darnell and Richard Haydn in Forever Amber (1947)
Darnell and Robert Newton in Blackbeard the PirateAwards
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She co-starred with Tyrone Power in four films, including the classic The Mark of Zorro (1940). Her biggest commercial success was the controversial Forever Amber (1947), an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the 1940s and Fox's biggest hit of 1947. She won critical acclaim for her work in Summer Storm (1944), Hangover Square (1945), Fallen Angel (1945), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and No Way Out (1950).
