Talk:Linda Darnell

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great article! But...

I read a lot of Hollywood bios and this one is excellent except for one element: the tone. Even during the successful portion of her career, the biography makes her sound doomed or like "it won't last". It's almost like the author thinks that she didn't deserve the success that she did achieve because there is a big black cloud hanging over this entire article. Much is made in the beginning of her turbulent personal life but, you know, I've read a lot about Hollywood actors & directors (from the period 1900s-1950s) and these short, unhappy marriages and on-the-side affairs are quite common. It's uncommon to come across an actor from this period who was married longer than 10 or 15 years to the same person. And as far as her "troubles" go, alcoholism was very prevalent in the Hollywood scene, another aspect of her life that doesn't stand out much considering the lives of those actresses who spectacularly fizzled out or had terrible careers.

Aside from this tone of doom, this is a really well-sourced article, especially for an actress who is not remembered much 40+ years after her death. Well done! 69.125.134.86 (talk) 15:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Intro seems to violate copyright.

http://www.walkoffame.com/linda-darnell

The intro/ first two paragraphs are verbatum copy of the Hollywood Walk of Fame article listed above. I took the last of these two paragraphs out, along with the broken footnote. Prior to taking out this paragraph, "footnote 1" had a long string of aaa bbb and ccc gibberish, and continues to register as an error at this writing. The footnote may have been broken before the edit because it was not pointing to a biography other than the one it duplicated.

The first paragraph, which remains, may not be original. An original introduction is needed with a good biographical reference maybe a nod to her being famous for her beauty. I remember the day of her death in 1965. She tried to rescue her friend's daughter, and succumbed two days later to massive burns, cutting her career short. She deserves a less defamatory introduction than "Darnell was incapable of dealing with Hollywood, and landed in a downward spiral of alcoholism, unsuccessful marriages and highly publicized or scandalous affairs...." copied from another website. Ayeletshacar (talk) 02:33, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Original surname

In the information box with Miss Darnell's picture, it is stated her original surname was Darnell, but in the section titled "Early life", it spelled Darnall. Now, this may be a slight typing error, or is this information just inconsistent. If her birth name was "Monetta Eloyse Darnall", then she became "Linda Darnell", the movie actress. This information needs to be corrected. Someone please help.

There seems to be confusion over al three of her names. This site gives Darnall and Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream by Ronald L. Davis refers to a family tree prepared by White Darnall. Many sources give Monetta or Manetta for her first name, an her second name is either given as Eloise, Eloyse or Eloisa. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Place of Death

Ms. Darnell died as a result of a fire at the upscale Carriage Hill apartment subdivision in the 600 block of Waukegan Rd in Glenview, IL. They were not detached homes but rather a collection of rows of split-level, single story and two story apartments. I lived just a couple blocks away and still remember the event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.45.112.197 (talk) 03:44, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural reference?

In an interview included in a PBS biography, Carol Burnett refers to Linda Darnell, and specifically "City Without Men," as an influence during childhood. Darnell and that film epitomized the types of actresses and movies that Burnett "grew up on" while being reared by her maternal grandmother. Burnett and her grandmother were regular movie-goers and movies such as that were a prime source of entertainment for them. 69.1.135.71 (talk) 23:53, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Kenneth Athon[reply]