August 9th, 2019
Quad Cities Icons: Linnea Quigley from Davenport, IA – Actress
The Quad Cities Icons Series is a collection of paintings by local artist Jon Burns celebrating people of fame and notable achievement who were raised in, grew up around or spent significant time in the Quad-Cities. A showing of the various artworks will take place at Rock Island’s DeSoto Gallery through August.
Linnea Quigley is an actress from Davenport, IA often referred to as a “scream queen” of the horror movie scene. Illustrated here as her most famous character Trash from the movie Return of the Living Dead.
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[…] Linnea Quigley is a familiar face to horror fans this time of year, especially those who can’t get enough of the Reagan Era, like me. I’d seen her in movies for years before I learned that she’s originally from Iowa: She was , and graduated from Bettendorf High School. I decided to rewatch three of the scream queen’s ‘8… […]