FILM
Black Spurs (1965) with Rory Calhoun, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr., Richard Arlen, Bruce Cabot, Terry Moore, James Best, and DeForest Kelley
Zero Hour! (1957) with Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Jerry Paris, and John Ashley
Dakota Incident (1956) with Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, and Whit Bissell
It Happens in Roma (1955) with Vittorio De Sica and Rossano Brazzi
This Is My Love (1954) with Dan Duryea, Rick Jason, Faith Domergue, Jerry Mathers, and William Hopper
Angels of Darkness (1954) with Valentina Cortese and Anthony Quinn
Second Chance (1953) with Robert Mitchum and Jack Palance
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) with Robert Newton, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Irene Ryan, Alan Mowbray, Richard Egan, and Anthony Caruso
Night Without Sleep (1952) with Gary Merrill, Hildegard Knef, Joyce Mackenzie, June Vincent, and Hugh Beaumont
Island of Desire (1952) with Tab Hunter
The Lady Pays Off (1951) with Stephen McNally, Gigi Perreau, Virginia Field, Nestor Paiva, and James Griffith
The Guy Who Came Back (1951) with Paul Douglas, Joan Bennett, Don DeFore, Billy Gray, and Zero Mostel
The 13th Letter (1951) with Charles Boyer and Michael Rennie
Two Flags West (1950) with Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson, Jay C. Flippen, Noah Beery Jr., and Harry von Zell
No Way Out (1950) with Richard Widmark, Stephen McNally, and Sidney Poitier
Everybody Does It (1949) with Paul Douglas, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, John Hoyt, and George Tobias
Slattery's Hurricane (1949) with Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake, John Russell, and Gary Merrill
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) with Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, and Paul Douglas
Unfaithfully Yours (1948) with Rex Harrison, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Lionel Stander, and Edgar Kennedy
The Walls of Jericho (1948) with Cornel Wilde, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau, and Henry Hull
Forever Amber (1947) with Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy, Anne Revere, and John Russell
My Darling Clementine (1946) with Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, and John Ireland
Centennial Summer (1946) with Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish, and Barbara Whiting
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) with Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard
Fallen Angel (1945) with Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine, and Percy Kilbride
The Great John L. (1945) with Barbara Britton, Greg McClure, Otto Kruger, and Rory Calhoun
Hangover Square (1945) with Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, and Alan Napier
Sweet and Low-Down (1944) with Benny Goodman, Jack Oakie, and Lynn Bari
Summer Storm (1944) with George Sanders, Edward Everett Horton, Anna Lee, and Hugo Haas
It Happened Tomorrow (1944) with Dick Powell, Jack Oakie, and Edgar Kennedy
Buffalo Bill (1944) with Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan, and Anthony Quinn
City Without Men (1943) with Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Margaret Hamilton, Rosemary DeCamp, and Sheldon Leonard
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) with Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore, Jane Darwell, Harry Morgan, and Morris Ankrum
Rise and Shine (1941) with Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Walter Brennan, Milton Berle, Sheldon Leonard, and Donald Meek
Blood and Sand (1941) with Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, Lynn Bari, John Carradine, Laird Cregar, and George Reeves
Chad Hanna (1940) with Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine
The Mark of Zorro (1940) with Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, and Eugene Pallette
Brigham Young (1940) with Tyrone Power, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Mary Astor, Vincent Price, and Jean Rogers
Star Dust (1940) with John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood, Mary Beth Hughes, Mary Healy, Donald Meek, and George Montgomery
Day-Time Wife (1939) with Tyrone Power, Wendy Barrie, and Joan Davis
Hotel for Women (1939) with Ann Sothern, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari, Joyce Compton, Elsa Maxwell, Ruth Terry, and Chick Chandler
TELEVISION GUEST APPEARANCES
Burke's Law, episode Who Killed His Royal Highness?, originally aired February 21, 1964
77 Sunset Strip, episode Sing Something Simple, originally aired November 6, 1959
Cimarron City, episode Kid on a Calico Horse, originally aired November 22, 1958
Pursuit, episode Free Ride, originally aired October 29, 1958
Studio 57, episode My Little Girl, originally aired January 30, 1958
Wagon Train, episode The Sacramento Story, originally aired June 25, 1958
Wagon Train, episode The Dora Gray Story, originally aired January 29, 1958
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, episode The Elevator, originally aired January 2, 1958
Climax!, episode Trial by Fire, originally aired September 5, 1957
Playhouse 90, episode Homeward Borne, originally aired May 9, 1957
The Ford Television Theatre, episode Fate Travels East, originally aired March 13, 1957
Schlitz Playhouse, episode Terror in the Streets, originally aired January 18, 1957
Screen Directors Playhouse, episode White Corridors, originally aired July 11, 1956
The Ford Television Theatre, episode All for a Man, originally aired March 8, 1956
The 20th Century-Fox Hour, episode Deception, originally aired March 7, 1956
Celebrity Playhouse, episode My Name Is Sally Roberts, originally aired January 3, 1956
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Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas, on October 16, 1923 (some sources cite 1921 as her year of birth), actress Linda Darnell came from a large family. Her
mother, a typical stage mother, pushed the strikingly beautiful child into modeling in the early 1930s and largely ignored her other children. The money earned from
modeling jobs went to help support the family. As Darnell began to mature, her mother prompted her to take an interest in local theater. At 15 but lying about her age,
she entered and won a "Gateway to Hollywood" talent search and was offered a contract with RKO Studios, but when studio executives found that Darnell was younger than
she claimed, they sent her back to Dallas. Nonetheless, she was almost immediately put under contract by 20th Century Fox, and she moved to Hollywood in early 1939. A
year later, Fox gave Darnell a starring role in Star Dust (1940; with John Payne), which became the picture that defined her career.
Often cast in film noir and westerns, her years at Fox were her best with big films such as Blood and Sand (1941; with Tyrone Power) and Forever Amber (1947;
with Cornel Wilde).
