Linda Arvidson

Linda Arvidson born Linda Arvidson Johnson July 12 1884 July 26 1949 sometimes credited as Linda Griffith was an American stage and film actress and philanthropist through the Linda A Griffith Fund She became one of Americas early motion picture stars while working at Biograph Studios in New York where none of the companys actors until 1913 were credited on screen Along with Florence Lawrence Marion Leonard and other female performers there she was often referred to by theatergoers and in trade publications as simply one of the Biograph girls Arvidson began working in the new rapidly expanding film industry after meeting her future husband D W Griffith who impressed her as an innovative screen director Their marriage was kept secret for reasons of professional discretion biography excerpted from Wikipedia