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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 ...
Nov 24, 2018 · A coroner’s inquest into her death ruled that Darnell’s death was accidental and that the fire had begun in or near the living room sofa and was caused by careless smoking; both adult women were smokers. Darnell’s body was cremated; she had wanted her ashes scattered over a ranch in New Mexico, but because of a dispute with the landowners ...
Jul 26, 2023 · 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...
- October 16, 1924
- April 10, 1965
Darnell, Linda (1921–1965)American actress. Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas, on October 16, 1921; died from injuries sustained in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, on April 10, 1965; third of five children of a postal clerk; attended public schools in Dallas; attended Central High School in Los Angeles and had studio tutoring; married Peverell Marley (a cinematographer), on ...
Oct 17, 2014 · Darnell, who had a lifelong fear of fire, was found crouched behind the sofa, burned over almost 90 percent of her body. She died at the hospital two days later, regaining consciousness only once, briefly, when Lola arrived at her bedside. She was 41 years old.
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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 ...
