Linda Watkins

Linda Mathews Watkins (May 23, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts – October 31, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was an American stage, film and television actress. 2Career Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gardiner and Elizabeth R. (née Mathews) Watkins, at age 16, her parents sent her to study at the Theatre Guild. After six months she began to appear with the guild's summer repertory program in Scarborough, New York. Instead of finishing her studies at the guild, she pursued a job at the office of Broadway producer Charles Hopkins. When he asked Watkins if she preferred playing comedy or drama, she replied, "Tragedy". He was casting for a comedy production and Watkins was offered the lead role. Aged 17, she performed in the Tom Cushing comedy The Devil In The Cheese with Fredric March at the Charles Hopkins Theater in New York City. In 1928, she appeared in the Forest Theater production of Trapped by Samuel Shipman. She appeared in a revival of The Wild Duck in November 1928, starred in the George S. Kaufman/Ring Lardner comedy June Moon in 1929, and co-starred with Ralph Morgan in Sweet Stranger in 1930. 2Motion pictures She debuted in movies in Sob Sister (1931), a film in which she plays a female reporte