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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, ...
Oct 3, 2022 · Her tragic death. YouTube. 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."
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...
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...
Nov 24, 2018 · Daughter of a Texas postal clerk, actress Linda Darnell trained to be a dancer, and came to Hollywood’s attention as a photographer's model. Though only 15, Darnell looked quite mature and seductive in her first motion picture, Hotel For Women (1937), and before she was twenty she found herself the leading lady of such 20th Century-Fox male ...
Linda Darnell had several affairs and three marriages. In April 1943, 19-year-old Darnell eloped with 42-year-old cameraman Peverell Marley and got married in Las Vegas. They did not have any biological children of their own, but adopted a girl, Charlotte Mildred "Lola" Marley (born January 5, 1948), in 1948.
Oct 16, 2014 · 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 ...
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 ...
Oct 17, 2014 · Linda Darnell had a stage mother straight out of Gypsy. A monstrous woman who dominated her fearful family, Mama Pearl first pushed her daughter onto the pageant and modeling circuit when she was just 11, fudging her age by two or three years. And of course she sent the shy girl to drama and diction classes.
Oct 19, 2023 · “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 that string of setbacks in her life is counterbalanced by performances of ...
