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Linda Arvidson (12 July 1884 – 26 July 1949) was an American silent film actress and the first wife of film director D.W. Griffith. She played lead roles in many of his earliest films. The pair separated around 1912 and finally divorced in 1936 when Griffith wished to remarry.

In 1925, she authored her autobiography When the Movies Were Young (1925, 1968). She is sometimes credited as Linda Griffith. She is mentioned in William J. Mann's The Biograph Girl, a novel based on Florence Lawrence.

Selected filmography

• The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
• Balked at the Altar (1908)
• After Many Years (1908)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
• Those Awful Hats (1909)
• The Golden Louis (1909)
• At the Altar (1909)
• A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
• Resurrection (1909)
• The Hessian Renegades (1909)
• The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)
• To Save Her Soul (1909)
• The Day After (1909)
• The Rocky Road (1910)
• The Two Brothers (1910)
• The Unchanging Sea (1910)
• His Trust (1911)
• His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
• His Daughter (1911)
• How She Triumphed (1911 - writer)
• Enoch Arden (1911)
• The Miser's Heart (1911)

Bibliography

• Linda Arvidson Griffith When the Movies were Young Dover Publications (1925, reprinted in 1968) ISBN 0-4862-2300-0

External links

• Linda Arvidson at the Internet Movie Database
• Linda Arvidson at Allmovie