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 ...

She may not be the most famous star of Hollywood's Golden Age, but Linda Darnell was a force to be reckoned with on the silver screen. Her death in 1965 was sudden, painful, and incredibly tragic.

Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, Hollywood changed her to simply Linda Darnell, apparently judging her legal family name sufficiently glamorous but also needing to do away with the more complicated given ...