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Linda Darnell: Star Dust
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Mais, curieusement à 31 ans, Linda Darnell ne tournera plus que des films mineurs. Après deux films italiens en 1955, elle renoue avec un certain succès dans le théâtre et joue dans une dizaine de pièces comme Tea and sympathie, Janus ou encore Late love. Elle tourne également dans quelques téléfilms de séries à la télévision. Linda Darnell revient au cinéma en 1964 avec son dernier film Les Éperons noirs. Hélas, elle ne verra jamais ce film, alors qu’elle regardait un de ses anciens films, Star dust, un incendie se déclare à cause d’une cigarette mal éteinte, l’actrice est brûlée vive, elle mourra le 10 avril 1965, 33 heures plus tard à l’hôpital dans d’atroces souffrances.
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Darnell's last work as an actress was in a stage production in Atlanta in early 1965. A few weeks later she died on April 10, 1965, at age 41, from burns she received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois. She had been staying there with friends while preparing for a stage role in the Chicago area. Her 1940 film Star Dust had played on television the night of the fire, and it was widely reported that Darnell had fallen asleep with a lit cigarette while watching it. But biographer Ronald L. Davis, in his book "Hollywood Beauty," says there was no evidence this was true or that Darnell was in any way responsible for the blaze. By his account, Darnell was burned over 80 percent of her body because she ran into a burning area trying to save her friend's child, not knowing that the young girl had already escaped. Darnell died the next day.
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According to legend, late in the night of April 10, 1965, the fiery Darnell stayed up late to watch her movie Stardust on television in the living room, on the ground floor of this home. She must have left a cigarette burning and after she retired to the bedroom upstairs, it began to smolder in the living room. This was about 5am.
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