: 15 Starting at an early age, her mother, Pearl, had big plans for Darnell in the entertainment industry. Her parents were not happily married, and she grew up as a shy and reserved girl in a house of domestic turmoil. She was the younger sister of Undeen and the older sister of Monte Maloya and Calvin Roy, Jr. One of her maternal great-grandparents was Cherokee. She won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours (1948) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949).ĭarnell was born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children (excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage) to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Margaret "Pearl" Brown. She co-starred with Tyrone Power in adventure films, and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947). 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. Darnell progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theater and film. Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell Octo– April 10, 1965) was an American actress.
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