Linda Darnell

Also known as Monetta Eloyse Darnall

American actress (1923–1965)

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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…

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Marilyn, dernières séances — archive footage2008
Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel — Self (Archive Footage)1999
Showbiz Goes to War — (archive footage)1982
Black Spurs — Sadie1965
Burke's Law — Monica Crenshaw1963
77 Sunset Strip — Zina Felice1958
Zero Hour! — Ellen Stryker1957
Homeward Borne — Meg Lyttleton1957
Wagon Train — Dora Gray Fogelberry

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Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell; October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) 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. 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).

Early life