Lina Basquette Overview:

Actress, Lina Basquette, was born Lena Copeland Baskette on Apr 19, 1907 in San Mateo, CA. Basquette died at the age of 87 on Sep 30, 1994 in Wheeling, WV .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Silent Film Star: . (1)

By Dawn Sample on May 5, 2013 From Noir and Chick Flicks

(April 19, 1907 - September 30, 1994) was an actress known for her troubled personal life and nine marriages, as her more than 75 years in entertainment beginning in the silent film era. After the death of her father, her mother married dance director Ernest Belcher and she and ha... Read full article


Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Godless Girl” –

By Art on Apr 19, 2011 From Classic Cinema Gold

Opening Title Card: [first card] “It is not generally known that there are Atheist Societies using the schools of the country as their battle-ground, ?attacking, through the Youth of the Nation, the beliefs that are sacred to most of the people.” Opening Title Card: [second card] “... Read full article


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During a standstill in her career in America, she was invited to Germany to appear in films for the Third Reich. She turned down the offer.

A run down of her many marriages -- She married Husband No. 1, Warner Bros. co-founder Sam Warner, at age 18; the man dubbed "The Father of Talking Pictures" was 20 years older than his bride and died two years later of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 40. She had one daughter, Lita Warner (born in 1926), by this marriage. Husband No. 2 was cinematographer J. Peverell Marley and they divorced about a year later. She was also widowed by Husband No. 3, actor Ray Hallam (1905-1931), who married her in 1931 and died that same year at age 26. Husband No. 4 and 5 was Theodore Hayes, former boxing trainer to prizefighter Jack Dempsey. They married in December of 1931 but it was annulled when it was found he was a bigamist; they remarried in 1933 but divorced two years later after having one son, Edward Alvin Hayes (born in 1934). Marriages to Husband No. 6, British actor Henry Mollison, No. 7, Warner Gilmore, and No. 8, Frank Mancuso, ended in divorce.

Among the rich and famous who owned Lina Basquette Great Danes were Raymond Burr, Mike Nichols and the Crown Prince of Iraq.

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