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Streaming Saturdays! Linda Darnell Courts Danger in HANGOVER SQUARE

♦ February 19, 2022 ♦ 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed a free, fabulous movie for you to watch right here! I’ve been on something of a Linda Darnell binge lately, prepping for my first-ever podcast appearance with the lovely Grace Collins of True Stories of Tinseltown, who got in touch after reading my story on Linda’s …

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STREAMING SATURDAYS! Teenage Linda Darnell Is Tyrone Power’s DAY-TIME WIFE

♦ June 19, 2021 ♦ 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of STREAMING SATURDAYS, where we bring you free, fun films to watch right here! This week: 1939’s Day-Time Wife! Early on in this odd little confection, Jane (Linda Darnell) finds out her husband Ken (Tyrone Power) is running around with his secretary (Wendy Barrie). So she breaks a super-heavy Deco lamp over …

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TINTYPE TUESDAY: The Classic Film Ladies of Autumn

♦ September 22, 2020 ♦ 2 Comments

Don’t look now, but what’s that coming around the corner? It’s… it’s… autumn! (At least in this hemisphere.) So let’s kick it off with a few of our favorite actresses decked out in their best reds, oranges, yellows and golds. There’s something about these pix that’s kind of anti-cheesecake: No frozen smiles to match their …

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STREAMING SATURDAYS! Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews Steam Up the Screen in FALLEN ANGEL

♦ September 22, 2018 ♦ 2 Comments

After a long hiatus, the Sister Celluloid website is back on a semi-regular basis, which I hope will be even steadier soon.  That includes the return of our Streaming Saturdays feature, where we embed free, fabulous films! So fasten your seatbelts, we’re starting with a doozy… If you ever run into Alice Faye, for God’s sake don’t …

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Linda Darnell: “A Sweeter Girl Never Lived”

♦ October 17, 2014 ♦ 20 Comments

“At thirty-two, I can see tell-tale marks in the mirror, but the ravages of time no longer terrify me. I am told that when surface beauty is gone, the real woman emerges.” —Linda Darnell She never lived long enough for her beauty to fade. But a real woman—and a real actress—did emerge, and deserve to be …

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