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THBLinda Darnell (1923-1965) American, Signed Hollywood Memorabilia
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
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Linda Darnell (1923-1965) American, Signed Hollywood Memorabilia. Framed with a color headshot at the top and her signature and an informative plaque side-by-side below. A seal of authenticity from the Walt Disney World Co. is attached bottom left.
Overall Size: 20 x 14 in.
Photo Size: 9 x 7 in.
Autograph Size: 2 x 3 1/2 in.
#6229 .
Linda Darnell was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell on October 16th, 1923 in Dallas, Texas. Her parents were not happily married, and she grew up shy and reserved from the domestic turmoil, despite her mother’s big plans for her to become a successful actress. Darnell remarked in later interviews that she really had no talent, but worked to become a success for her mother’s sake, taking elocution, dancing, and acting lessons. She became a child model, performing mostly in beauty contests and local theater productions while focusing on art and Spanish in high school. In 1937 a talent scout for 20th Century Fox came to Dallas and discovered her, but she was deemed too young at a Hollywood screen test. Undeterred, her mother took her to several other studios, eventually landing her a contract with RKO Pictures. Darnell, who wished to focus on stage acting, went against her mother’s wishes and returned to Texas to work with the Dallas Little Theater. This move caught the attention of 20th Century Fox, who helped her break her contract with RKO and provided her an apartment of her own at age 15, starring in Hotel for Women in 1939. The studio falsified her age in press and paperwork and chose films for her, and she became fiercely loyal to Darryl F. Zanuck, the producer who gave her that first break and shepherded most of her career. After appearing alongside Tyrone Power in Day-Time Wife that same year their chemistry led to several successful follow-ups, particularly the well-received The Mark of Zorro in 1940. Although she quickly developed a reputation as a “sweet young girl” in Westerns like Chad Hanna and Blood and Sand, the typecasting also led her career into the doldrums, with newer, fresher talent taking her place in the World War II years. After an incident with Zanuck where she repelled his advances, she began to be regularly overlooked for film roles, and she eloped with a much older cameraman named Peverell Marley in 1943 to spite her former mentor. After being voted one of the four most beautiful women in Hollywood in 1944, however, her fortunes improved, and her role in Summer Storm as a seductive, dangerous girl changed her image to that of a pin-up girl and led to new opportunities. Her role in A Letter to Three Wives in 1949 was universally acclaimed and made her one of the most in-demand actresses in Hollywood, but when she did not receive an Academy Award nomination for it her attitude towards the film industry (and vice versa) soured further, and led her to seek psychotherapy. The 1950s brought two divorces and three failed marriages, with her career derailed further by her growing alcoholism and erratic behavior. However, it also marked the beginning of her time as a freelance actress, finally able to choose roles rather than be assigned them by Zanuck or others, and she worked on pictures in Europe for the first time. In the late 1950s Darnell began to move away from film and focus on television as well as theater, with her final onscreen role in Black Spurs appearing after her tragic death. Darnell died on April 10th, 1965 from burns that she had received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, early the day before. Her numerous affairs, mental anguish, and volatile life make up one of the most referenced cautionary tales in film history, and today she is recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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20 x 14 in.
