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    BornMonetta Eloyse Darnell · October 16, 1923 · Dallas, Texas, U.S.
    DiedApril 10, 1965 (aged 41) · Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    EducationSunset High School
    SpousesPeverell Marley · (m. 1943; div. 1951) · Phillip Liebmann · (m. 1954; div. 1955) · Merle Roy Robertson · (m. 1957; div. 1963)
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    The Tragic Death Of 1940s Film Star Linda Darnell
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    The Tragic Death Of 1940s Film Star Linda Darnell
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    Early life

    Darnell was born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children (excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage) to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Margaret "Pearl" Brown. One of her maternal gr… See more

    Career beginnings

    Although originally wanting to become an actress on the stage, Darnell was featured in a Gateway to Hollywood talent search and initially landed a contract at RKO Pictures. There was no certainty, though, and she soon return… See more

    Stardom

    At first, everything was like a fairy tale coming true. I stepped into a fabulous land where, overnight, I was a movie star. In pictures you're built up by everyone. On the set, in the publicity office, wherever you go, everyone s… See more

    Professional setbacks

    In early 1942, Darnell filmed The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, another film that would not do much to advance her career. Meanwhile, she realized that Darryl F. Zanuck had lost interest in her, and she was overlooked … See more

    Renewed success

    In 1946, Darnell won the starring role in the highly anticipated movie Forever Amber, based on a bestselling historical novel that was denounced as being immoral at that time. The character Amber was so named because of … See more

    Later career

    Aside from her co-starring role opposite Richard Widmark, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier in the noir No Way Out (1950), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, which she later called "the only good picture I ever made," her … See more

    Personal life

    Since Darnell was underage when she arrived in Hollywood, she was tutored on set. She planned on attending graduation ceremonies at Sunset High School, but she was excluded from them and instead graduated f… See more

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