Biography
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 co-starring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947). F...
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Complete Filmography

Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel
1999
as Self (Archive Footage)
Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite delivered on her potential. This is the story of her rath...

Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A...

Black Spurs
1965
as Sadie
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad f...

Zero Hour!
1957
as Ellen Stryker
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land...

Dakota Incident
1956
as Amy Clarke
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
White Corridors
1956
as Ellen Barber
As her friend suffers from a violent appendicitis attack, Ellen takes her to a London hospital in the dead of night. Despite the night nurse's reticen...

It Happens in Roma
1955
as Renata Adorni
Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it...

This Is My Love
1954
as Vida Dove
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.

Angels of Darkness
1954
as Lola Baldi
When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their l...

Second Chance
1953
as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952
as Edwina Mansfield
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Night Without Sleep
1952
as Julie Bannon
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Saturday Island
1952
as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe
When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — a...

The Lady Pays Off
1951
as Evelyn Walsh Warren
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her d...

The Guy Who Came Back
1951
as Dee Shane
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a c...

The 13th Letter
1951
as Denise Turner
A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.

Two Flags West
1950
as Elena Kenniston
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

No Way Out
1950
as Edie Johnson
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

The Costume Designer
1950
as Self (archive footage)
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct ...

Everybody Does It
1949
as Cecil Carver
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to...

Slattery's Hurricane
1949
as Mrs. Aggie Hobson
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story...

A Letter to Three Wives
1949
as Lora Mae Hollingsway
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she doe...

Unfaithfully Yours
1948
as Daphne de Carter
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his ...

The Walls of Jericho
1948
as Algeria Wedge
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.

Forever Amber
1947
as Amber St. Clair
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...

My Darling Clementine
1946
as Chihuahua
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They deci...

Anna and the King of Siam
1946
as Tuptim
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

Centennial Summer
1946
as Edith Rogers
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial expositio...

Fallen Angel
1945
as Stella
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...

The Great John L.
1945
as Anne Livingston
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champ...

The All-Star Bond Rally
1945
as Self - Pinup Girl
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Fil...

Hangover Square
1945
as Netta Longdon
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime...
G.I. Journal
1944
as Self
We see them all here including male vocalist Harry Babbitt, comic Ish Kabibble and guest stars like Jerry Colonna, Mel Blanc, Lucille Ball and Linda D...

Sweet and Low-Down
1944
as Trudy Wilson
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid ...

Summer Storm
1944
as Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...

Buffalo Bill
1944
as Dawn Starlight
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

It Happened Tomorrow
1944
as Sylvia Smith-Stevens
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...

The Song of Bernadette
1943
as The Virgin Mary (uncredited)
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

City Without Men
1943
as Nancy Johnson
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she ...

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
as Virginia Clemm
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Rise and Shine
1941
as Louise Murray
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

Blood and Sand
1941
as Carmen Espinosa
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face re...

Chad Hanna
1940
as Caroline Tridd Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

The Mark of Zorro
1940
as Lolita Quintero
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless ...

Brigham Young
1940
as Zina Webb - The Outsider
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...

Star Dust
1940
as Carolyn Sayres
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Day-time Wife
1939
as Jane Norton
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Hotel for Women
1939
as Marcia Bromely
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.