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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 338961" data-attributes="member: 7">I am glad you resurrected this discussion. Linda Darnell is an underappreciated actress from her time period. She was beautiful and talented, but slides right through the cracks within film discussions. Of all the beauties you&#039;ve mentioned here, Linda would probably place in my Top 3 favorites, along with Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner. As much as I like Ava Gardner in BAREFOOT CONTESSA and MOGAMBO, I find myself being quite indifferent to her overall, and as for Russell, I always categorize her in the 1950s, even though I know her initial splash was at the start of WWII inside the USA. And that&#039;s what&#039;s baffling. She was maturing into quite a good actress, but Hollywood just simply lost interest in her. By the late-&#039;50s, she was barely in her early-30s, but she was considered washed up. Fox -- her home studio for a solid decade -- even treated her poorly. She was forced to audition for the role of Alice in the movie version of Steinbeck&#039;s THE WAYWARD BUS in 1957, but she was still passed over for the younger Joan Collins. Yes, he treated her bad. She was young and naive enough to believe that Hughes loved her and that his world revolved around her. She got a rude awakening soon enough. And he practically made her think that he was writing THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA as a star vehicle for her that would bring her back to the &quot;prestige&quot; pictures she had been loosing out on. But she was heartbroken to find out in the trade papers that Ava Gardner had been cast instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 338961, member: 7"] I am glad you resurrected this discussion. Linda Darnell is an underappreciated actress from her time period. She was beautiful and talented, but slides right through the cracks within film discussions. Of all the beauties you've mentioned here, Linda would probably place in my Top 3 favorites, along with Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner. As much as I like Ava Gardner in BAREFOOT CONTESSA and MOGAMBO, I find myself being quite indifferent to her overall, and as for Russell, I always categorize her in the 1950s, even though I know her initial splash was at the start of WWII inside the USA. And that's what's baffling. She was maturing into quite a good actress, but Hollywood just simply lost interest in her. By the late-'50s, she was barely in her early-30s, but she was considered washed up. Fox -- her home studio for a solid decade -- even treated her poorly. She was forced to audition for the role of Alice in the movie version of Steinbeck's THE WAYWARD BUS in 1957, but she was still passed over for the younger Joan Collins. Yes, he treated her bad. She was young and naive enough to believe that Hughes loved her and that his world revolved around her. She got a rude awakening soon enough. And he practically made her think that he was writing THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA as a star vehicle for her that would bring her back to the "prestige" pictures she had been loosing out on. But she was heartbroken to find out in the trade papers that Ava Gardner had been cast instead. [/QUOTE]

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