Linda Darnell

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine St. Mildred Dunnock has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures, at 6613 Hollywood Boulevard. She is buried in the Union Hill Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania. She died in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. One of her old films was playing on television the night of the fire and Darnell fell asleep with a lit cigarette while watching it. Her final film was The Pick-up Artist in (1987). She died from burns received in a house fire in Chicago, Illinois. Dunnock was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Death of a Salesman in 1951, and for Baby Doll in 1956.

She was widely tipped to win an Academy Award nomination for this part, but, when this did not happen, her career began to diminish and her film appearances were sporadic thereafter. In addition to her successful career as a character actress in film and theater, Dunnock appeared frequently in numerous television series in guest roles, and later in her career, several made-for-television movies, including a remake of Death of a Salesman in which she played Linda Loman for the third time. Darnell's hard-edged performance in the latter won her the best reviews of her career. Her films include The Trouble with Harry (1955), Love Me Tender (1956), Baby Doll (1956), Peyton Place (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Darnell played two roles that earned her respect as an actress: as Daphne De Carter in the Preston Sturges comedy Unfaithfully Yours, opposite Rex Harrison, and as one of the three wives in A Letter to Three Wives. She reprised her role in the 1951 film version. Publicity at the time suggested this would be the next Gone With The Wind, and the search for Amber was deliberately modelled on the extensive process that led to the casting of Scarlett O'Hara, but the film did not live up to its hype. During the 1940s Dunnock performed mostly on stage, and scored another major success with Death of a Salesman in 1948.

In 1947 she won the starring role in the highly anticipated Forever Amber. The 1945 film version marked her screen debut. By 1939 she had returned to Hollywood and immediately began to secure good roles, appearing in such films as Blood and Sand, Hangover Square and My Darling Clementine. After a couple of roles in Broadway productions, Dunnock won praise for her performance as a Welsh school teacher in The Corn is Green (1940). She was chosen by a talent scout to go to Hollywood but was sent home to Dallas when they discovered she had lied about her age. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dunnock was a school teacher who did not start acting until she was in her early thirties. Born in Dallas, Texas and one of five children, Darnell was a model by the age of 11 and was acting in theater by the age of 13. Mildred Dunnock (January 25, 1901 – July 5, 1991) was an American theater, film and television actress.

Monetta Eloyse Darnell, better known as Linda Darnell (October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965), was a US film actress.