FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Birthday of Linda Darnell, reoccurring Dana Andrews ingenue along with Jeanne Crain and Gene Tierney: Darnell, though, had the most edge, especially as the lusty FALLEN ANGEL waitress a decade before sitting by Dana's side as his wife in ZERO HOUR, later parodied by Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty in AIRPLANE.

"He drank it, let him pay for it," Linda Darnell tells one of several mad crushes, the diner owner in FALLEN ANGEL where, soon enough, Dana Andrews ALSO falls into her trap,  and is soon wrapped-up in her moonlit murder in this Otto Preminger directed con-man Noir. 

Dana Andrews plays the title character in Otto Preminger's followup Film Noir to LAURA; though it seems this pictured dame is our FALLEN ANGEL: Enter Linda Darnell as a lusted-upon waitress with the posture of a tattered wild animal reluctantly thrown back into gilded domesticity, it's a pose epitomizing the desperation and desolation of Film Noir. Here's the Cult Film Freak review.