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Lina Basquette (born Lena Copeland Baskette; April 19, 1907 – September 30, 1994) was an American actress. She is noted for her 75-year career in entertainment, which began during the silent film era. Talented as a dancer, she was paid as a girl for performing and gained her first film contract at age nine.
Oct 6, 1994 · Lina Basquette, a star of the silent-film era who later became a professional dog breeder and handler, died on Friday at her home in Wheeling, W.Va. She was 87. The cause was cancer, said Barry...
Lena Baskette (Lina Basquette), actress, dog breeder: born San Mateo, California 19 April 1907; married seven times (one son, one daughter); died Wheeling, West Virginia 30 September 1994.
Born Lena Baskette on April 19, 1907, in San Mateo, California; died at her home in Wheeling, West Virginia, of lymphoma on September 30, 1995; daughter of Gladys Basquette Belcher and stepdaughter of Ernest Belcher (a dance instructor); half-sister of actress-dancer Marge Champion; married Sam Warner (the movie producer), in 1925 (died 1927 ...
Oct 5, 1994 · Lina Basquette, the raven-haired dancer and actress best remembered as the leading lady in Cecil B. DeMille’s final silent film “The Godless Girl,” has died. She was 87.
Sam died unexpectedly at age 40 of a brain hemorrhage the night before the film's premiere. This heartbreak jump-started an avalanche of problems for Lina. She not only became embroiled in a series of legal battles with her in-laws over her husband's estate, she lost custody of her daughter Lita in the process.
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Oct 7, 2005 · Lina Basquette, a raven-haired silent-screen actor who appeared in films by Cecil B. DeMille and Frank Capra and married one of the Warner brothers, is dead at age 87. Miss Basquette died...
