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Linda Darnell
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Actor Born: October 16, 1923 in Dallas, TX Death: April 10, 1965 in Chicago, IL Biography:Daughter of a Texas postal clerk, actress "Linda Darnell" trained to be a dancer, and came to Hollywood's attention as a photographer's model. Though only 15, Darnell looked quite mature and seductive in her first motion picture, "Hotel For Women" (1937), and before she was twenty she found herself the leading lady of such 20th Century-Fox male heartthrobs as "Tyrone Power" and "Henry Fonda". Weary of thankless good-girl roles, Darnell scored a personal triumph when loaned out to United Artists for "September Storm" (1944), in which she played a "Scarlett O'Hara" type Russian vixen. Thereafter, 20th Century-Fox assigned the actress meatier, more substantial parts, culminating in the much-sought-after leading role in 1947's "Forever Amber". Director "Joseph L. Mankiewicz" followed up this triumph by giving Darnell two of her best parts--"Paul Douglas"' "wrong side of the tracks" wife in "A Letter to... Full Biography
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