Lina Basquette

Lina Basquette

American actress (1907–1994)
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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. In her acting career, Basquette may have been best known for her role as Judith in The Godless Girl (1929) The film was based on the life of Queen Silver, known as a 20th-century child prodigy, and feminist and socialist activist.

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Lina Basquette was born on Friday, 19 April 1907 in San Mateo, California. Her full name at birth was Lena Copeland Baskette. She was best known as an actress. Basquette's country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Friday, 30 September 1994 in Wheeling, West Virginia at the age of 87. She is buried at Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown. Her religion is listed as Roman Catholic. She was 5' 3" (160 cm) tall with a slim build. She had dark brown eyes and black hair (color). Her zodiac star sign was Aries.

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Full name at birth
Lena Copeland Baskette
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Claim to fame
The Godless Girl, WAMPAS Baby Star of 1928
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Date of birth
19 April 1907
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Place of birth
San Mateo, California
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Date of death
30 September 1994
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Age
87 (age at death)
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Wheeling, West Virginia
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Cause of death
Lymphoma
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Resting place
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
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Occupation
Actress, Dancer, Showgirl, Ballerina, Dog Bredder And Handler, and Author
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5' 3" (160 cm)
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So many get reformed through religion. I got reformed through dogs.
  • In 1923, Ziegfeld Follies producers officially dubbed her "America`s Prima Ballerina.
  • For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lena Basquette has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1529 Vine Street.
  • In 1943, Basquette was raped by an AWOL serviceman who trespassed onto her Pennsylvania farm. The highly-publicized crime led to the soldier getting 20 years in prison.
  • She was a mother at 19, and a widow at 20 when Sam Warner died from a brain abscess complicated by pneumonia.
  • In the climactic scene from The Godless Girl, Cecille B. DeMille insisted on realism in filming a last shot of the reformatory going up in flames. Basquette`s eyebrows and eyelashes were singed; her eyelashes grew back but her eyebrows did not.

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