Her only child, Victor Kainer Eyton, from her first marriage died a teenager after developing influenza.
Known as "The Selig Girl" during her prime, William Desmond Taylor directed her in three of her 176 films. Her signature appears on Taylor's death certificate; she is the one who officially identified Taylor's body after his murder.
Known for her golden blond hair.
Married to one-time general manager of Parmount Pictures, Charles Eyton.
So popular was her serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (1916), that she he became a trendsetter in women's fashions and coiffures and inspired a waltz, a clothing line and a cocktail to be named after her.
The first chapterplay with holdover action, Kathlyn's adventure serial was but one in a number of melodramas and jungle adventures teaming the actress with the Selig Polyscope Company's famous stable of wild animals (the nucleus for what would later become the Los Angeles Zoo).
Williams' mother, Mary C. Boe, was born in Norway, and her two uncles, Christ and Hans Boe, lived in the Butte, Montana area.