Linda Darnell

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine St. Filming of "Marie-Antoinette" is due to commence in February 2005. She is buried in the Union Hill Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The forthcoming motion picture, scheduled for 2006, is to be directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on the biography of Marie-Antoinette by British historian, Lady Antonia Fraser. 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. More recently, Dunst has also committed to playing the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. She died from burns received in a house fire in Chicago, Illinois. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow.

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. She made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs written by Marc Shaiman. Darnell's hard-edged performance in the latter won her the best reviews of her career. She and actor Jake Gyllenhaal recently broke up after dating for two years. 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 won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow. 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. Her most famous performance to date was as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man, reprised in Spider-Man 2.

In 1947 she won the starring role in the highly anticipated Forever Amber. This movie features the frowned-upon-scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was then twenty nine. 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. Her breakthrough was in Interview with the Vampire, the film based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. 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. She later made the transition to the big screen in her first film appearance, New York Stories, in 1989 and soon after landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks's character in The Bonfire of the Vanities, which also starred Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis. 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. She also appeared as an extra on one episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live (which she would guest host years later).

Monetta Eloyse Darnell, better known as Linda Darnell (October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965), was a US film actress. She began her career at the age of three appearing in television commercials. Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American actress/singer. New York Stories (1989). The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

Greedy (1994). Interview with the Vampire (1994). High Strung (1994). Little Women (1994).

Jumanji (1995). Mother Night (1996). Anastasia (1997). Wag the Dog (1997).

True Heart (1997). Small Soldiers (1998). Strike! (1998). The Virgin Suicides (1999).

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). Dick (1999). The Crow: Salvation (2000). Luckytown (2000).

Bring It On (2000). Deeply (2000). All Forgotten (2000). Get Over It (2001).

Crazy/Beautiful (2001). The Cat's Meow (2001). Spider-Man (2002). Levity (2003).

Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Spider-Man 2 (2004). Wimbledon (2004).

Elizabethtown (2005). Marie-Antoinette (2006).