Linda Darnell
Linda Darnell ( born October 16, 1923 in Dallas, Texas, † April 10, 1965 in Glenview, Illinois; actually Monetta Eloyse Darnell ) was an American actress.
Life
Linda Darnell, was born as the daughter of a postman, 1923 in Dallas, Texas, and an account of her ambitious mother early on a number of beauty contests and dance competitions. At 14 she won a local competition under the motto Gateway to Hollywood and a screen test at RKO. Two years later she received a contract with 20th Century Fox, where she shortly thereafter played the wife of Tyrone Power in Daytime Wife. With power she was also in the films trek to Utah, together The Mark of Zorro and King of the bullfighter in front of the camera.
As an exotic beauty to Darnell quickly developed into one of the most popular female stars of the studio. Mostly it was used in more decorative parts, but no later than 1944, it was directed by Douglas Sirk in Summer Storm, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's film adaptation of the story summer storms, her acting talent. After losing the lead roles in The Song of Bernadette Jennifer Jones and Laura to Gene Tierney, she got her chance in 1947 in Amber, the great courtesan, after Lana Turner had refused the role. The film adaptation of a piquant for the prevailing conditions Romans took over Otto Preminger, the Darnell forced her for the role the hair to turn blond and she also sat otherwise solid mentally and physically under pressure. The film flopped, and Darnell should be released from their contract. Since you gave Joseph L. Mankiewicz co-starred in A Letter to Three Wives and Darnell offered one of their best displays. But with the new Fox Star Jeanne Crain Darnell lost more good roles. From the mid- 1950s her career was more or less over, and it was until 1965 only in television productions and rarely seen in movies.
She was married three times. Her first marriage with cinematographer J. Peverell Marley thought of 1942 until 1951. Together they had a child. Her second marriage lasted from 1954 to 1955, while held its third and final 1957-1963. She died in 1965 from severe burns, which she contracted when she tried to save the child of a friend from their burning house, not knowing that the child was already saved. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in height 1631 Vine Street is reminiscent of Linda Darnell.