TV and Movies

[daisyk]

Last night I came across one of the first movies Linda Darnell made-Day-time Wife with Tyrone Power from 1938 or 39. I had never seen any of early movies. At first I wasn't sure it was her-she was beautiful as always but of course so young and more surprising-very animated. I guess I'm used to Linda in Letter to Three Wives and such. She really was cute in this early movie. If her birth date is correct, she couldn't have been more than 16 or so. Anyway, just something I found interesting. The movie was on Fox Retro channel which I didn't even know we had. 

[Shelbelle]

Also was quite young when she made Blood and Sand with Ty Power. She was also good in No Way Out with Widmark and a very young Poitier. 

[Shelbelle]

She was born in 1923, so she sure payed a young bride in 1939. 

[Shawnie]

Loved her and Cornel Wilde in Forever Amber.

[daisyk]

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@Shelbelle wrote:

She was born in 1923, so she sure payed a young bride in 1939. 

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@ShelbelleI know! That was so surpising to me. She held her own well though.

[mousiegirl]

Back then, women looked older than their age, fortunately, now women look younger.  I have always liked her in movies I have seen, Letter to Three Wives is my favorite.

[SeaMaiden]

I had to look her up....my so lovely....sad death in 1965.... house fire🙁 only 43 years old.

[Moonlady]

Linda Darnell was 41 when she died, another victim of careless smoking. Though her burns were extensive, I remember reading that she said she wasn't going to die. It was an opportunistic staph infection which killed her a day later.

She appeared frequently as a daytime game show panelist. We kids used to watch the show after we walked home from school for lunch. That's where I first heard of her.

She also appeared as the BVM in The Song of Bernadette. How appropriate that she should play "the beautiful lady," even if viewers only got to see a mostly-white apparition.

Linda Darnell lived an interesting life, though it was short.