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  Linda Darnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas, and one of five children, Darnell was a model by the age of 11 and was acting in theater by the age of 13.
Darnell was married to cameraman J. Peverell Marley (1943-1952), brewery heir Philip Leibmann (1954-55), and pilot Merle Roy Robertson (1957-1963).
Darnell died at the age of 41 on April 10, 1965, from the burns she received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, while staying with friends.
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Linda was ushered in "Hangover Square" in 1945, which she was strangled and then burned by insane composer Laird Cregar.
Linda's once perfect face had became bloated from the alcohol, her figure was overweight, and her hair was too fl to be believeable.
Linda's corpse was burned in "Hangover Square." Linda was burned at the stake in "Anna and the King of Siam.
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 Linda Darnell Biography
Born in Dallas, Texas and one of five children, Darnell was a model by the age of 11 and was acting in theater by the age of 13.
Darnell played two roles that earned her respect as an actress: as Daphne De Carter in the Preston Sturges comedy Unfaithfully Yours, opposite Rex Harrison, and as one of the three wives in A Letter to Three Wives.
Darnell died on April 10, 1965, from the burns she received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, while staying with friends.
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 Denny Jackson's Linda Darnell Page
Linda Darnell, was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, in Dallas, Texas on October 16, 1923.
By the time Linda was 13, she was appearing with local theater companies and her talent was already becoming apparent.
Linda reached the height of her career when she played opposite Cornell Wilde in 1947's FOREVER AMBER where she survives the famed London fire.
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 Linda Darnell
Darnell lit up the screens with over 50 films including The Mark of Zorro, Anne and the King of Siam (where one character was burned at the stake) and Forever Amber in which she portrayed a survivor of the great London Fire.
Darnell supposedly had a lifelong fear of dying in a fire.
Darnell had about $1200 in cash downstairs where she was preparing her taxes.
www.findadeath.com /Deceased/d/darnell/darnell.htm   (634 words)

  
 Biography for Linda Darnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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.
Linda reached the height of her career when she played opposite Cornel Wilde in 1947's Forever Amber (1947) where she survives the famed London fire.
Linda's final appearance on the silver screen was in 1965's Black Spurs (1965).
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 Linda Darnell Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Darnell was hampered by being under contract to Fox, which specialized in escapist fare and wasted her for seven unremarkable years.
In 1965 Darnell was visiting a former secretary in a suburb of Chicago and fell asleep with a lit cigarette after watching a late show of "Star Dust" (1940), wherein she played a young Hollywood hopeful.
Today Darnell is not remembered as well as many of her less-talented contemporaries, but an examination of her career reveals a gifted beauty whose steamy noir persona made her a tragic, unforgettable entry in Hollywood history.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198719   (744 words)

  
 Linda Darnell, Texas Movie Star.
Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, Hollywood changed her to simply Linda Darnell, apparently judging her legal family name sufficiently glamorous but also needing to do away with the more complicated given names.
Darnell’s role could have been drawn from her actual life because her character used her beauty to climb the social ladder in a small town.
Darnell was burned severely when fire engulfed a home she was visiting in Glenville, Illinois.
www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/Linda-Darnell-AM105.htm   (447 words)

  
 Linda Darnell at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
A Hollywood talent scout got Linda a screen test in 1937 but when the studio discovered that Linda was only thirteen they sent her home.
Linda married J. Peverell Marley, a cameraman, in 1944.
Linda and J. Peverell adopted a daughter, Lola, in 1948.
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 Linda Darnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 40s Hollywood; surely Darnell could easily fit into the top ten most beautiful women the screen has ever known.
The product of a relentless stage mother, Darnell was a star by age 15 at Fox, where she was a contract player for 14 years....
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 This is My Love starring Linda Darnell - RKO Pictures
Linda Darnell - Latina Actress and Great Lady with a Capital "L" The next afternoon I found myself seated on a banquette next to Linda Darnell opposite the gentlemen I’d met the day before.
Linda, who’d been schooled as a contract player never to meddle in a department to which she didn’t belong, went along with all the changes.
Linda went back in to try and find the girl and was overcome by smoke.
www.scrapbooksofmymind.com /this_is_my_love.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Linda Darnell], film actress, one of six children of Calvin Roy and Margaret Pearl (Brown) Darnell, was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 16, 1923.
Darnell made a Broadway debut in the unsuccessful Harbor Lights in 1956, appeared frequently in major television dramas, toured with tenor Thomas Hayward in a nightclub act, and performed regularly in regional theaters across the country in such plays as Tea and Sympathy, A Roomful of Roses, and Janus.
She was severely burned and died on April 10 in the Koch Burn Center at Cook County Hospital.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/DD/fda15.html   (534 words)

  
 Meredy's Linda Darnell Trivia Mania
Linda's life story would be mirrored in one of her movies.
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 Linda Darnell @ Classic Movie Favorites - Featured Films: Blood And Sand
The story tells of the rise in fame of Bullfighter Juan Gallardo, played by Tyrone Power who comes from very humble beginnings to become the most famous bullfighter in Spain.
She stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
Linda is as innocent as she is young and beautiful in the part of Juan's wife.
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 Pearl SMITH\Linda Darnell WILSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Pearl SMITH, son of Pearl SMITH and Mary Ellen HOLLAND, was born [private].
He married Linda Darnell WILSON August 16, 1969.
Linda Darnell WILSON, daughter of Robert WILSON and Ollie SPURLOCK, was born [private].
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 Linda Darnell Trivia -- notstarring.com
Linda was seeing director Joseph Mankiewicz, but she ended their relationship when he would not cast her as the title character.
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 Linda Darnell @ Classic Movie Favorites
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 Linda Darnell News
News about Linda Darnell continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood Movie Rating: 7 out of 10 Extras Rating: 7 out of 10 Movie Details: View here Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: Not Rated Starring: Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega/Zorro Linda...
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas.
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 Linda Darnell Biography
Click HERE for As Time Goes By Birth Name: Monetta Eloyse Darnell
Born on October 17, 1923 in Dallas, Texas, US Died on April 10, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, US Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast.
It was Star Dust that Darnell was watching the night of April 9, 1965, at the Chicago home of her former secretary.
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 Linda Darnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 Amazon.ca DVD: Darnell, Linda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
A Letter To Three Wives by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern (DVD - 2005)
Anna And The King Of Siam by John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, and Linda Darnell (DVD - 2005)
Unfaithfully Yours (Criterion Collection) by Preston Sturges, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, and Rudy Vallee (DVD - 2005)
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15454061   (357 words)

  
 Zero Hour! - Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Jerry Paris, Arthur Hailey, ...
- Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Jerry Paris, Arthur Hailey, Patricia Tiernan - 1957
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