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Darnell died on April 10, 1965, from burns that she had received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, early the day before. [32] She had been staying at the home of her former secretary and the secretary's daughter and had just received notice from her agent of three possible movie contracts.
Jul 26, 2023 · Linda Darnell's life came to a tragic end on April 10, 1965, as the result of burns from a fire. The Los Angeles Times states that she was visiting her friend and once-secretary Jeanne Curtis' home in Chicago and that they had stayed up late to watch a television broadcast of Darnell's own 1940 film, "Star Dust."
Nov 24, 2018 · On April 10, 1965, Darnell died from burns she received in a fire at the house of her former secretary. Ironically, she had been watching Star Dust (1940) on television, which was one of the films that set her career in motion, when the house caught fire.
Oct 21, 2023 · She may not be the most famous star of Hollywood's Golden Age, but Linda Darnell was a force to be reckoned with on the silver screen. Her death in 1965 was sudden, painful, and incredibly...
Aug 30, 2021 · Linda Darnell was known as "The Girl With The Perfect Face," but tragically, she died in an accident so horrific—it left her body unrecognizable.
Linda Darnell. Actress. She is best remembered for her numerous roles in the 1940s and 1950s, including such films as Star Dust (1940), The Mark of Zorro (1940), Hangover Square (1945), My Darling Clementine (1946), and Forever Amber (1947).
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.
Actress Born Linda Monette Eloyse Darnell on Oct. 16, 1923 in Dallas, Texas. Died April 10, 1965 of burns suffered in fire in Chicago, Ill. L inda Darnell — who was killed in a fire at a friend's...
It was Star Dust (1940) that Darnell was watching the night of April 9, 1965, at the home of her former secretary, located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The house caught on fire in the early hours of the next morning and Darnell died that afternoon in Cook County Hospital.
On April 10, 1965, Linda died from burns she received in a fire at the house of her former secretary. Ironically, she had been watching Star Dust (1940) on television in the evening before her fatal fire, which was one of the films that set her career in motion.
