Lina Basquette

Film Actress

Female

Born Apr 19, 1907

Hometown San Mateo, Califo...

Died Sep 30, 1994

Death Place Wheeling, West Vi...

Other Names Baskette, Lena Co...

Lina Basquette was an American actress noted as much for her more than 75 years in entertainment beginning in the silent film era, as her tumultuous personal life and nine marriages.

Romance

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Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Married 1958
Warner Gilmore

Married 1948 - 1958
Henry Mollison
Married 1935 - 1947
Jack Dempsey
Dated 1932
Theodore Teddy Hayes

Married 1931 - 1935
Ray Hallam

Married 1930 - 1931
J. Peverell Marley
Married 1929 - 1930
Sam Warner
Married 1924 - 1927
Lawrence Tibbett
Dated
Harry Richman
Fling
Nelson Eddy
Dated
Ted Hayes
Married

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Movie Guide And Film Series
NYTimes - Apr 25, 2008

MOVIES Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. THE MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA We are lucky enough in New York City to have a handful of highly talented pianists who are experts in the subtle, self-effacing art of providing accompaniment to silent films. But it's a particular pleasure to hear
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Critic's Choice; New Dvd's
NYTimes - Oct 09, 2007

TREASURES III Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934 American movies didn't wait for Angelina Jolie and Michael Moore to develop a social conscience. One of the sobering lessons of the new anthology from the National Film Preservation Foundation, ''Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934,'' is that the pictures of the early 20th
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Lina Basquette, Silent Film Star And Dog Breeder, Is Dead At 87
NYTimes - Oct 06, 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 Paris, a friend. At the height of her career, Ms. Basquette was known as much for the intrigues and dramas of her personal life as for those in which she
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Critic's Notebook; Early Capra, When He Had An Edge
NYTimes - May 01, 1992

FOR many people, Frank Capra will always be Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Clarence the Angel rolled into one, the director who can make grown men cry at "It's a Wonderful Life" and political cynics cheer at "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." I'm more partial to an earlier Capra scene, in which Barbara Stanwyck jumps off a yacht in the wee morning
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1907 Birth Born on April 19, 1907.

1916 9 Years Old She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, and secured her first film contract at the age of nine in 1916 with Universal Studios for the silent film series, Lena Baskette Featurettes.

TEENAGE

1923 16 Years Old In 1923, Ziegfeld Follies producers officially dubbed her "America's Prima Ballerina."

1925 18 Years Old In 1925, Basquette began an affair with Sam Warner of Warner Brothers and the couple married on July 4, 1925. … Read More

TWENTIES

1928 21 Years Old 1 More Event

Basquette was named one of thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1928 and the following year made The Younger Generation with Frank Capra. … Read More

1930 23 Years Old 1 More Event

By 1930, Basquette was broke and spent a good amount of her time partying with fellow actresses Jean Harlow, Clara Bow and Carole Lombard.

1931 24 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1931, Basquette, now divorced from Marley and depressed without her daughter, tried to commit suicide by taking poison.

1935 28 Years Old Basquette would only see Lita on two occasions over the next twenty years: in 1935, when Harry Warner and his family moved to Los Angeles, and when Lita was married to Dr. Nathan Hiatt in 1947.

THIRTIES

1943 36 Years Old In 1943, Basquette was raped by an AWOL serviceman who trespassed onto her Pennsylvania farm. … Read More

FORTIES

1947 40 Years Old According to her obituary in The New York Times, "from 1947 to 1974, she ran Honey Hollow Kennels in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1991 84 Years Old In 1991, Basquette was cast as Nada in filmmaker Danny Boyd's Paradise Park. … Read More

1994 88 Years Old Died on September 30, 1994.

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