{{Short description|American silent film actress}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Jean Darnell | image = Jean Darnell 1912.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1889 | birth_place = Sherman, Texas, U.S. | death_date = January 20, 1961 | death_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1912–1913 }}
'''Jean Darnell'''<ref name="variety obit"/> (1889 – January 20, 1961) was an American silent film actress who had a brief career between 1912 and 1913.
==Career== Largely home schooled,<ref name="jd of tc">[https://www.newspapers.com/image/609694740/?clipping_id=160606763 "Jean Darnell of the Thanhouser Company"]. ''Stockton Daily Evening Record''. July 5, 1913. p. 8. Retrieved December 9, 2024.</ref> Darnell was performing onstage from age five through thirteen, before attending Roanoke College.<ref name="tcm">[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-calumet-news/160592165/ "Thanhouser Star Popular"]. ''The Calumet News''. . p.. Retrieved December 9, 2024.</ref><ref name="jd of tc"/>
In 1913, Darnell was a leading woman for the Thanhouser studio.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jean Darnell Ill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUs_AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Jean+Darnell%22+actress&pg=PA1270 |access-date=January 19, 2022 |work=Moving Picture World |date=December 13, 1913 |page=1270}}</ref> She also acted for the Kalem Company. By November 1920, she was working in the publicity department of Goldwyn Distributing Corporation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Jean Darnell, Press Agent Deluxe, Visits Corsicana |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92934736/jean-darnell/ |access-date=January 19, 2022 |work=Corsicana Daily Sun |date=November 13, 1920 |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Darnell died on January 20, 1961, in Dallas, Texas, survived by her adopted daughter.<ref name="variety obit">{{Cite news|title=Obituaries: Jean D. Matthews|author=|date=February 8, 1961|work=Variety|page=103|quote=Jean Darnell Matthews, former actress, publicist, and schoolteacher, died Jan. 20 in Dallas. She had appeared in N.Y. musicals, was a publicity agent and acted in films before going to Dallas in 1918. There she became publicity director for Interstate Theatres and for the defunct Dallas Little Theatre. Lately she had been a teacher.|id={{ProQuest|1017084761}}}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role |- |rowspan=9|1912 |''Baby Hands'' |The wife |- |''Conductor 786'' |The Conductor's Son's Wife |- |''The Voice of Conscience'' | |- |''His Father's Son'' | |- |''Put Yourself in His Place'' |Edith Raby, the Squire's Sister |- |''The Truant's Doom'' |Tim's Teacher |- |''The Thunderbolt'' |The Poor Man's Wife |- |''The Forest Rose'' |Young Pioneer Mother |- |''The Race'' |The Inventor's Mother |- |rowspan=11|1913 |''A Poor Relation'' |The Widow |- |''His Uncle's Wives'' | |- |''Some Fools There Were'' |The Aunt |- |''The Pretty Girl in Lower Five'' | |- |''The Two Sisters'' |The Older Sister |- |''Cymbeline'' |The Queen |- |''The Woman Who Did Not Care'' |The Witch |- |''The Widow's Stratagem'' | |- |''The Other Girl'' |The Sister |- |''Carmen'' | |- |''The Farmer's Daughters (1913 film)'' |Grace, the Farmer's Other Daughter |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0201515}}
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