MOVIES - Linda Brent Continued

Here is Linda Brent as a secretary in the Producers Releasing Corporation film Today I Hang (1942).  She appears a couple of times and gets to say things like, "Please go right in."  With the addition of these pictures this is now probably the most extensive archive of Linda Brent images online.

And here she is again.  The dresses in this movie are really nice, some bold asymmetrical two-tone and big brooches.

This excellent biographical info comes from Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch, a blog focusing on Western movies - thanks to its author, Lightning Bryce.

• Born in Shanghai, China to an Irish father and a Russian mother (nee Vassilieva), Linda Brent (1919-1994) didn't become an American citizen until November of 1942. By then, she had been voted the “prettiest white girl in Shanghai,” had appeared in local plays in Los Angeles and at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, had married and divorced MGM contract player Steve Cornell (who then, allegedly, disappeared in order to avoid the draft), became Orson Welles' comely assistant in his famous wartime magic act at the Hollywood Wonder Show, and dated movie tough guy Lyle Talbot. She was rumored to be close to marrying the latter but that apparently never happened. Instead she wed another screen tough, John Kellogg, and their 1951 divorce created unfortunate headlines that bespoke of physical abuse and a failure to pay child support. In contrast to all this, Linda Brent's screen career, which also included the Bob Livingston “Johnny Rapidan” Western The Laramie Trail (1944) and a host of chorus girl and handmaiden roles, seems little more than an afterthought. On screen and television until the early 1960s, Linda Laura Brent died in obscurity in Los Angeles on 7 May 1994.