Trivia

Died in a fire of unknown origin while visiting friends. While sleeping upstairs and awakened by smoke, she tried to exit through the downstairs door but was trapped. Badly burned over 90% of her body she died the following day in the hospital.

Suffered from alcoholism during most of her career.

Was allergic to horses.

Mother of Charlotte Mildred Adams (nicknamed Lola). Born on January 5, 1948; adopted in 1948 while Darnell was married to J. Peverell Marley.

Acted as a witness at close friend Lana Turner's wedding to Stephen Crane.

Was to play an adolescent version of Emmeline, like Brooke Shields' portrayal in The Blue Lagoon (1980), in an adaptation of "The Blue Lagoon" for Gainsborough Pictures not long after she was signed to a contract with 20th Century-Fox, the company that was to finance and co-produce the project, starring Margaret Lockwood and Richard Greene, but the project was abandoned after World War II started. When the project was restarted in 1946, she wanted to play the adult Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon (1949), but Darryl F. Zanuck refused her to travel to England to meet J. Arthur Rank for an audition.

Tuptim, her character in Anna and the King of Siam (1946), was executed by being burned at the stake. In real life, Linda died at age 41 from burns received in a house fire.

Buried at Union Hill Cemetery, Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

In Italy, almost all her films were dubbed by either Lydia Simoneschi or Dhia Cristiani. Only once was she dubbed by Paola Barbara: in The Mark of Zorro (1940).

Born at 4:40am-CST.