Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Linda Lawson (actress)" in English language version.
She was born Linda Spaziani on January 11, 1936, the youngest of three children to Italian immigrant parents, Maria Cataldi and Edward Spaziani. When she was five years old, her family drove west from Michigan and settled in Fontana, California, where she attended Chaffey Union High School as a teenager. Upon graduation, Linda followed her sister Diana Spaziani to Las Vegas.
Linda's real name is Linda Gloria Spaziani, but she changed the last one to Lawson on the advice of Louella Parsons and songwriter Jimmy McHugh when she won an audition as a singer in Las Vegas.
