Career
Linda Arvidson was the first wife of film director Doctorate.W. (14 May 1906 - 2 March 1936). She played lead roles in many of his earliest films. While acting, she was sometimes credited as Linda.
In 1925, she authored her autobiography When the Movies Were Young (1925, 1968).
She is mentioned in William J. Mann"s The Biograph Girl, a novel based on Florence Lawrence.