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  1. Linda Darnell. Actress: Fallen Angel. Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups. Her mother encouraged her to audition when Hollywood talent scouts came to Dallas. She went to California and when the studio found out how young she really was, she...

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    Linda Darnell. Actress: Fallen Angel. Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups.

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    • Dallas, Texas, USA
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    • Glenview, Illinois, USA
  3. American Film & Theater Personalities. Childhood & Early Life. Born on October 16, 1923, in Dallas, Texas, USA, Linda Darnell was the second of four children of postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Pearl Brown. Her older sister’s name was Undeen. She also had a younger sister named Monte Maloya and a brother named Calvin Roy, Jr.

  4. Oct 16, 2014 · 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.

  5. Oct 19, 2023 · The burns Darnell sustained killed her two days later. She was forty-one. “Linda Darnell's life was a tragedy—an American tragedy—like Judy Garland’s and Marilyn Monroe’s and James Dean’s,” wrote Ronald L. Davis in the opening lines of Hollywood Beauty (1991), to date the only biography of Darnell. The statement has merit, but ...

  6. Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel: Directed by Hillary Atkin. With Peter Graves, Dorris Bowdon, Undeen Darnell Hunter, Linda Darnell. Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite delivered on her potential.

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  8. Linda Darnell was touted by Hollywood wags as "the girl with the perfect face," and for once the description fit. Her cameo-cut china doll face was enough to ensure stardom in glamor-obsessed 1940s Hollywood; surely Darnell could easily fit into the top ten most beautiful women the screen has ever known. And as she matured, her voice deepened into a...

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