Linda Watkins

Linda Mathews Watkins (May 23, 1908 – October 31, 1976) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actress. Early years Born in Boston, Massachusetts, as Linda Mathews Watkins, the daughter of Gardiner and Elizabeth R. (née Mathews) Watkins. Her father was active in real estate in Boston. She was related to physicist Albert A. Michelson and painter Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Linda married Gabriel Lorie Hess, a prominent motion pictures industry attorney, in January 1932 but maintained her maiden name as her stage name. She had one son, Adam Hess, and he and his wife Marjorie Hess had three daughters, one of whom, Faye, followed in her grandmother's acting footsteps. Watkins attended a teachers' college because her parents wanted her to teach. She later went to study at the Theatre Guild. Career