Linda Mathews Watkins (May 23, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts â October 31, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was an American stage, film and television actress.
Early years[edit]
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Watkins was the daughter of Gardiner and Elizabeth R. (née Mathews) Watkins.[1] Her father was active in real estate in Boston. She was related to physicist Albert A. Michelson and painter Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.[2]
Watkins attended a teachers' college because her parents wanted her to teach. She later went to study at the Theatre Guild.[3]
Stage[edit]
After six months Watkins began to appear with the Theater Guild's summer repertory program in Scarborough, New York. Three weeks after she finished a course at the Theater Guild's Dramatic School, she had the lead in The Devil in the Cheese.[4] When producer Charles Hopkins[5] 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.[citation needed]
Watkins gained additional acting experience during a season with the Hartman stock theater company in Columbus, Ohio, after which the Shubert Organization gave her the lead in its Chicago production of Trapped.[3]
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.[6] 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.[7]
Motion pictures[edit]
She debuted in movies in Sob Sister (1931), a film in which she plays a female reporter. Reviewer Muriel Babcock remarked that Watkins 'is cool, blond, poised, good to look upon. She plays the title role with admirable restraint and gives every evidence of being a comer in films.'[citation needed]
Linda Watkins, 1932.
Her second movie was Good Sport (1931), a screen adaptation of a story by William J. Hurlbut.
Produced by the Fox Film Company, Watkins played Marilyn Parker, a naive wife caught up in a love triangle. Her co-stars were Alan Dinehart and John Boles. She appeared in Charlie Chan's Chance, a lost 1932 film starring Warner Oland as the famous detective.[8]Edmund Lowe and Watkins co-starred in Cheaters at Play (1932).
Her other film credits included From Hell It Came (1957), Ten North Frederick (1958), As Young as We Are (1958), Cash McCall (1960), Because They're Young (1960), The Parent Trap (1961), Good Neighbor Sam (1964), Huckleberry Finn (1974) and Bad Ronald (1974).[8]
Marriage[edit]
Watkins married lawyer Gabriel L. Hess, a widower, at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago on January 28, 1932.[9] He was attorney for Will Hays and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. The couple had a son, Adam Hess, who died in 1969; he left three daughters, Elizabeth, Faye, and Emily, Watkins' granddaughters. Watkins obtained her release from Fox prior to her marriage.[8]
Television[edit]
Watkins appeared in numerous television broadcasts beginning with an episode of The Billy Rose Show in 1950. Other shows in which she performed are Wagon Train (1957), Death Valley Days (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1958), M Squad (1957), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957â1958), Peter Gunn (1959), Perry Mason (1959), The David Niven Show (1959), The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958), Gunsmoke (Season 4, Episode 23 'Sky'), Gunsmoke (Season 6, Episode 15 'Old Fool'), Gunsmoke season 7 (episode 3 Miss Kitty) Gunsmoke (Season 10 Episode 6 'Take Her, She's Cheap') The Asphalt Jungle (1961), The Munsters, Hazel (1963â64), and The Doris Day Show (1968).[8]
She also appeared as Emily Hull, the mother of Sally McMillan (Susan St. James), in several episodes of McMillan & Wife. One of her last television appearances was as a guest star on The Waltons in 1973 as Maggie MacKenzie, in the episode 'The Journey'.[8]
Death[edit]
Linda Watkins died in Los Angeles in 1976, aged 68, from undisclosed causes.[8]
Filmography[edit]
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
External links[edit]
Sally Mcmillan Johns Hopkins University
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Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 â May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome). This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Taussig is also known for her work in banning thalidomide and was widely recognized as a highly skilled physician.
Early life and career[edit]
Helen Brooke Taussig was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 24, 1898 to Frank W. Taussig and Edith Thomas Guild, who had three other children. Her father was an economist at Harvard University, and her mother was one of the first students at Radcliffe College, a women's college.
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When Taussig was 11 years old, her mother succumbed to tuberculosis;[1] Helen also contracted the disease and was ill for several years, severely affecting her ability to do schoolwork. She also struggled with severe dyslexia through her early school years.[2] She graduated from Cambridge School for Girls in 1917,[citation needed] then studied for two years at Radcliffe before earning a bachelor's degree and Phi Beta Kappa membership[3] from the University of California, Berkeley in 1921.
She spent summers as a child in Cotuit, Massachusetts,[4] and later in life had a home there.[5]
Taussig later studied histology, bacteriology, and anatomy at both Harvard Medical School and Boston University, though neither school allowed her to earn a degree.[2] She was particularly discriminated against in her histology class, where she was barred from speaking to her male classmates for fear of 'contamination.'[6] As an anatomy student at Boston University in 1925, she published her first scientific paper on studies of ox heart muscles with Alexander Begg. She applied to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and was accepted as a full-degree candidate.[2] She completed her MD degree in 1927 at Johns Hopkins, where she then remained for one year as a cardiology fellow and for two years as a pediatrics intern.[7] While at Hopkins, she received two Archibald Fellowships, spanning 1927-1930.[2]
Dr. Taussig became deaf in the later part of her career. She learned to use lip-reading techniques and hearing aids to speak with her patients, and her fingers rather than a stethoscope to feel the rhythm of their heartbeats and to lip read.[7]
Career in medicine and retirement[edit]
Taussig began her career after her fellowship in cardiology with a stint as head of a rheumatic fever department. She then was hired by the pediatric department of Johns Hopkins, the Harriet Lane Home, as its chief, where she served from 1930 until 1963. While there, she did extensive work on anoxemia, called 'blue baby syndrome', and discovered its cause as a partial blockage of the pulmonary artery either alone or combined with a hole between the ventricles of the infant's heart. She worked with surgeon Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas to develop a surgery to correct the defect, resulting in what is now known as the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt. They first performed the corrective surgery on dogs but by 1946 began to perform the operation on human babies. That year, she became an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; she was promoted to full professor in 1959. In 1947, Taussig published her magnum opus, Congenital Malformations of the Heart, considered to be the genesis of pediatric cardiology as an independent field.[2] In 1954, she received the Albert Lasker award for outstanding contributions to medicine.[8]
Taussig formally retired from Johns Hopkins in 1963, but continued to teach, give lectures, and lobby for various causes. In addition, she kept writing scientific papers (of the 129 total that Taussig wrote, 41 were after her retirement from Johns Hopkins). She advocated the use of animals in medical research and legalized abortion, as well as the benefits of palliative care and hospice.[2][6]
In 1965, Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.[8]
Taussig also learned of the damaging effects of the drug thalidomide on newborns and in 1967, testified before Congress on this matter after a trip to Germany where she worked with infants suffering from phocomelia (severe limb deformities). As a result of her efforts, thalidomide was banned in the United States and Europe.[2] In 1977, Taussig moved to a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Ever active, she continued making periodic trips to the University of Delaware for research work.[citation needed] Taussig pioneered the use of x-rays and fluoroscopy simultaneously to examine changes in a baby's heart and lungs in a less invasive manner.[9] At the time of her death, she was working on research involving the genetic basis for certain congenital heart defects with avian hearts.[2]
Death[edit]
On May 20, 1986, four days short of her 88th birthday, Taussig was driving a group of friends to vote in a local election when her car collided with another vehicle at an intersection, killing her instantly.[2]
Honors[edit]
In 1947, Taussig was honored by France as Chevalier (knight) of the Legion d'Honneur. In 1953, she received an honorary medal from the American College of Chest Physicians. She was honored by Italy with the Feltrinelli Award in 1954;[2] that same year, she was given the Lasker Award for her work. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.[10] In 1963, she was given the Gold Heart Award.[9] She was honored with the American Heart Association's award of merit in 1967. An honorary fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 1960, Taussig was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and the following year became the first female president of the American Heart Association.[2] In 1963, Taussig received the Achievement Award from the American Association of University Women. The University of Göttingen named its cardiac clinic in honor of Taussig in 1965.[2]
In 1973, Taussig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences,[11] 27 years after Blalock was elected for their joint work on the Blalock-Taussig shunt.[9] Also in 1973, Taussig was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[12]
Johns Hopkins Hospital named the Helen B. Taussig Congenital Heart Disease Center in her honor, and in 2005 the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine named one of its four colleges in her honor.[13]
Throughout her career, Taussig earned more than 20 honorary degrees.[6] Taussig was a member of several prestigious professional societies during her career. She was a member of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the American College of Physicians.[9] The American Pediatric Society honored her with the Howland Award in 1971, and Johns Hopkins awarded her the Milton S. Eisenhower Medal for Distinguished Service in 1976.[6]
Film portrayals[edit]
In the 2004 HBO movie Something the Lord Made, Dr. Taussig was portrayed by Mary Stuart Masterson.
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
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