List of the best Linda Darnell movies: Forever Amber(1947), Star Dust(1940), Island of Desire(1952), Dakota Incident(1956), City Without Men(1943), My Darling Clementine(1946), A Letter to Three Wives(1949), Unfaithfully Yours(1948), The Mark of Zorro(1940), Hangover Square(1945), It Happened Tomorrow(1944), The Walls of Jericho(1948) ... ...
Drama
USA
1947
140 Minutes
courtesan soldier king charles ii earl highwayman privateer emotional passionate england farm prison london theater court social climbing nobility marriage rebellion survival loss
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Linda Darnell John Payne Roland Young Charlotte Greenwood William Gargan Mary Beth Hughes Mary Healy Donald Meek Harry Green Jessie Ralph Walter Kingsford
actress teenager talent scout football player singer girl charming endearing emotional amusing arizona arkansas los angeles theater film set office aspirations film industry fame friendship
Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »
Romance
UK
1952
103 Minutes
Lt. Elizabeth Smythe
Linda Darnell Tab Hunter Donald Gray John Laurie Russell Waters Hilda Fenemore Brenda Hogan Diana Decker Sheila Chong Peggy Hassard Michael Newell
In 1943, an Allied hospital-ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South-Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.
Western
USA
1956
88 Minutes
Amy Clarke
Linda Darnell Dale Robertson John Lund Ward Bond Regis Toomey Skip Homeier Irving Bacon John Doucette Whit Bissell William Fawcett Malcolm Atterbury
stationmaster cheyenne native american passenger singer outlaw brooding suspenseful tense gripping intense engaging north dakota survival native americans cheyenne indians stagecoach indian attacks fight to the death escape
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
Drama
USA
1943
75 Minutes
Nancy Johnson
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Western
USA
1946
97 Minutes
Chihuahua
Henry Fonda Linda Darnell Victor Mature Walter Brennan Cathy Downs Tim Holt Ward Bond Alan Mowbray John Ireland Jane Darwell
sheriff cowboy barber schoolteacher gambler love interest charming gutsy engaging o.k. corral wild west tombstone, ariz. barbershop saloon justice wyatt earp doc holiday cattle underdog revenge
The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Drama
USA
1949
103 Minutes
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Jeanne Crain Linda Darnell Ann Sothern Kirk Douglas Paul Douglas Barbara Lawrence Jeffrey Lynn Connie Gilchrist Florence Bates Hobart Cavanaugh
wife child adulterer husband maid emotional intense suspenseful westchester, n.y. river household suburbia infidelity marriage mystery 1940s
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Romance
USA
1948
105 Minutes
Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Kurt Kreuger Lionel Stander Edgar Kennedy Alan Bridge Julius Tannen Torben Meyer
orchestra conductor brother-in-law wife detective secretary amusing charming family home concert stage love marriage infidelity jealousy classical music love revenge 1930s
While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife's suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1940
93 Minutes
Tyrone Power Linda Darnell Basil Rathbone Gale Sondergaard Eugene Pallette J. Edward Bromberg Montagu Love Janet Beecher Robert Lowery Chris-Pin Martin George Regas
zorro governor captain niece wife thrilling spirited uplifting frenetic california mansion corruption heroism justice defending the helpless rescue quest sacrifice 19th century
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
77 Minutes
Laird Cregar Linda Darnell George Sanders Glenn Langan Faye Marlowe Alan Napier Frederick Worlock J.W. Austin Leland Hodgson Clifford Brooke John Goldsworthy
composer friend father doctor singer love interest dark suspenseful london apartment music hall mental illness violence jealousy blackouts music transformation fall 1890s
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
84 Minutes
Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Edgar Kennedy John Philliber Edward Brophy George Cleveland Paul Guilfoyle George Chandler Eddie Acuff Marion Martin
reporter old man fortuneteller colleague uncle editor witty endearing newsroom household opera house racetrack hotel news precognition death wedding gambling quest rivalry
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Drama
USA
1948
106 Minutes
Cornel Wilde Linda Darnell Anne Baxter Kirk Douglas Ann Dvorak Marjorie Rambeau Henry Hull Colleen Townsend Barton MacLane Griff Barnett William Tracy
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1941
120 Minutes
Tyrone Power Linda Darnell Rita Hayworth Alla Nazimova Anthony Quinn J. Carrol Naish John Carradine Lynn Bari Laird Cregar Vicente Gomez William Montague
matador sweetheart temptress best friend critic mother sultry emotional seville, spain madrid bullring apartment church bullfighting fame redemption infidelity loyalty disillusionment rise
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.
Drama
USA
1944
105 Minutes
George Sanders Linda Darnell Anna Lee Edward Everett Horton Hugo Haas Lori Lahner Sig Ruman John Philliber
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
Drama
USA
1939
81 Minutes
Marcia Bromley
Ann Sothern Linda Darnell Jimmy Ellison Jean Rogers Lynn Hari June Gale
A girl from Syracuse goes to New York to see her boyfriend, successful architect who no longer cares for her. Fellow residents at a women's hotel encourage her to become a top model. When boyfriend tries to come back to her he has rivals.
Western
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Linda Darnell Jeff Chandler Cornel Wilde Dale Robertson Jay C. Flippen Noah Beery Jr. Harry von Zell
Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.
Comedy
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Jane
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
85 Minutes
Charles Boyer Linda Darnell Michael Rennie Constance Smith Francoise Rosay Judith Evelyn
doctor young woman love interest wife rival war hero suspenseful quebec small town family home doctor's office gossip deception small-town life infidelity mystery 1950s
Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
Adventure
USA
1952
99 Minutes
Robert Newton Linda Darnell William Bendix Keith Andes Torin Thatcher Irene Ryan Alan Mowbray Richard Egan Skelton Knaggs Richard Wessel Anthony Caruso
pirate surgeon first mate blackbeard damsel in distress hostage thrilling spirited atlantic ocean pirate ship island heroism pirates seafaring bravery secret identity pursuit rivalry rescue 1710s
Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Biography
USA
1942
67 Minutes
Virginia Clemm
Shepperd Strudwick Linda Darnell Virginia Gilmore Jane Darwell Mary Howard Frank Conroy Harry Morgan Walter Kingsford Morris Ankrum
Edgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire... See full summary »
Drama
1950
106 Minutes
Richard Widmark Linda Darnell Sidney Poitier Stephen McNally Mildred Joanne Smith Harry Bellaver Stanley Ridges Dotts Johnson Amanda Randolph Ruby Dee Ken Christy
doctor robber racist widow surgeon brother tense fiery suspenseful hospital city race relations racism revenge accidental death revenge pursuit rivalry 1950s
A hoodlum (Richard Widmark) sparks a race riot after his brother dies under a doctor's (Sidney Poitier) care.
Mystery & Thriller
1957
81 Minutes
Ellen Stryker
Dana Andrews Linda Darnell Sterling Hayden Elroy Hirsch Geoffrey Toone Jerry Paris Peggy King Charles Quinlivan Carole Eden Steve London Raymond Ferrell
veteran wife captain pilot doctor son tense frightful gripping airplane vancouver, british columbia emergency landing flying redemption illness unlikely hero fear love transformation quest
An outbreak of food poisoning forces an ex-World War II pilot (Dana Andrews) to land a Canadian passenger plane.
Drama
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Tuptim
Irene Dunne Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Lee J. Cobb Gale Sondergaard Mikhail Rasumny Dennis Hoey Tito Renaldo
king teacher wife son daughter engaging spirited thailand bangkok royal palace school culture clash friendship jealousy social change westernization discovery transformation 1860s
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Drama
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Dee Shane
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Jack Oakie George Murphy Linda Darnell Walter Brennan Milton Berle Sheldon Leonard Donald Meek Ruth Donnelly
gangster professor college president college student football player daughter amusing lighthearted tender college household football field classroom kidnapping final exams student-teacher relationship college athletics football sports betting rise
Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited.
Musical
USA
1944
76 Minutes
Trudy Wilson
James Cardwell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Allyn Joslyn John Campbell
bandleader musician brother manager singer beautiful girl spirited cheeky chicago household train station military academy stage new york city show business big-band music maturing family jealousy mistaken identity
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when a kid, Tony Birch, ... See full summary »