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LOVE LIFE
Linda Darnell came to Hollywood with the ' looks of a sensuous woman and the heart of a little girl. She was only a teen-ager and her life was an open book. She loved gayety and there was no secret about her popularity and her dates. When she was courted and won by Pev Marley, the cameraman who personally supervised all her tests and guided her camera behavior, that was no surprise. She lived out in the open.
Today, Linda Darnell surrounds herself with such a steep wall of privacy that Hollywood is baffled by her and retorts with rumors. One hears a strange and inconsistent assortment of tales.
One story has it that Linda is lonely and disturbed. Another guesses at a big romance with a secret love. A third and much publicized tale is that she is madly in love with the Italian movie producer, Giuseppe Amato, and has bought a fabulous home on the outskirts of Rome, where she will live permanently to be near him. Still another story has Linda dating nightly a wealthy and persistent Chicago business man.
"That's one of the funniest of all," Linda grinned up at me. She was leaning down to slip into some comfy, low-heeled slippers after coming off a long session in high heels on the set of "Second Chance," at RKO. "I read in the paper that I was having a mad whirl here in Hollywood with Milton Stevenson of Chicago. The truth is," she revealed, "that his car may have been spotted outside my house any number of times after our first date, although we've never seen each other since.
"What happened," she explained, "is that my maid and Mr. Stevenson's chauffeur took one look at each other the night Milton and I had the date — and his chauffeur started courting my maid!"
Linda postscripted her story with an afterthought. "Milton was very nice. Unfortunately when he called me a couple of times after that I was out of (continued on pace 57)
And is escorted to an opening by Bill Dozier.
Linda Darnell's screen love life is hectic, too.