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Lina Basquette. 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.
The full-faced, raven-haired California-born actress was christened Lena Baskette, the daughter of Frank Baskette, a drug store owner. Lina trained in dance while very young and at the San Francisco World's Fair of 1915, the eight-year-old was featured as a baby ballerina for the Victor Talking Machine Company's exhibition.
April 19, 1907 · San Mateo, California, USA Died September 30, 1994 · Wheeling, West Virginia, USA (cancer) Birth name Lena Copeland Baskette Mini Bio Journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns once dubbed Lina Basquette "The Screen Tragedy Girl." In retrospect, Lina's private life bore a similar description.
Lina Basquette, a silent-screen actress who appeared in films by Cecil B. DeMille and Frank Capra and married one of the Warner brothers, is dead at age 87. Please subscribe to continue reading…...
Lina Basquette. Birth. 19 Apr 1907. San Mateo, San Mateo County, California, USA. Death. 30 Sep 1994 (aged 87) Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA. Burial. Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown.
Oct 15, 2014 | 2 Minutes “Times Past,” AKC Gazette: Lina Basquette (1907–1994) did enough living for 10 lifetimes: Ziegfeld Follies dancer, movie star, widow of Sam Warner (of Warner Brothers...
Breeder. Handler. Judge. Star Everlasting. by Barbara J. Andrews Lina Basquett passed away October 1994. Zigfield Follies dancer, movie star, Honey Hollow Great Dane legend, pro handler, then multi-Group AKC Judge; Lina died in her W. VA home at age 87. Cancer took her life but not her spirit.
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 ...
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 ...
WHEELING, W.Va. — Lina Basquette, a star of the silent-film era who later became a professional dog handler, has died at age 87. She died Friday of cancer in her Wheeling home. At the height of...