Linda Darnell

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 costarring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber 1947 Furthermore she won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours 1948 and A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Notorious for her unstable personal life Darnell was incapable of dealing with Hollywood and landed in a downward spiral of alcoholism unsuccessful marriages and highly publicized or scandalous affairs She failed to receive recognition from the industry and its critics and disappeared from the screen in the 1950s Darnell died from burns sustained in a house fire Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Darnell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia