“You knew when I came on the screen that my kind couldn’t live. I was burned to death, shot and stoned. I was the kind of girl you wouldn’t want to come home to unless you wanted to end up in the morgue. And my sins paid off. The telephone started ringing again.” — Linda Darnell
Source: 1947
Photo: 1949
“I’ve begun to think there’s something to the law of compensation. I’ve had all of the good things any woman could ever desire – and most of the bad things no woman wants.” — Linda Darnell
Source: Sheilah Graham (1950)
“I’ll always regret that I didn’t have a normal childhood. Was a picture career worth the sacrifice? Well, yes…you can’t have everything.” — Linda Darnell
Source: 1944
Photo: 1943
“People got tired of seeing the sweet young things I was playing and I landed at the bottom of the roller coaster. I’d crammed thirty years into ten…I missed out on my girlhood, the fun, little things that now seem important.” – Linda Darnell
Photo: Alexander Kahle (1952)
