Lina Basquette

Lina Basquette

Born: April 19, 1907
Died: September 20, 1994
in San Mateo, California, USA
Lina Basquette (born Lena Copeland Baskette), 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. The film was based on the life of Queen Silver, known as a 20th-century child prodigy, and feminist and socialist activist.

Basquette also was noted for her several marriages, including her first, to the much older noted producer, Sam Warner, founder of Warner Bros. film studio. She had several marriages and a tumultuous personal life. When her film career declined, she returned for a period to dancing and stage performances. After she retired from the entertainment world, in 1947 Basquette moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she became a noted breeder of Great Danes; her dogs won numerous professional show prizes. She wrote several books on dog breeding as well. Later living in West Virginia, she also served as a judge for the American Kennel Club, and wrote a column.

Movies for Lina Basquette...

Paradise Park
Title: Paradise Park
Character: Nada
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Hope springs eternal in this heartwarming tale about the citizens of a small West Virginia town forced to live in a government-provided trailer park after a devastating flood. As the impoverished flood victims struggle to survive, each resident fantasizes about a better life -- and indeed, a miracle is just around the corner. The film features cameos by country singers Johnny Paycheck, Porter Wagoner and Webb Wilder and wrestler Dusty Rhodes.
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A Night for Crime
Title: A Night for Crime
Character: Mona Harrison
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Ah-Nee
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Title: Rose of the Rio Grande
Character: Anita
Released: March 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Roxanne
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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Ebb Tide
Title: Ebb Tide
Character: Attwater's Servant
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
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Souls at Sea
Title: Souls at Sea
Character: Brunette in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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The Final Hour
Title: The Final Hour
Character: Belle
Released: July 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
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The Phantom Express
Title: The Phantom Express
Character: Betty
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Janet Kenyon
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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The Midnight Lady
Title: The Midnight Lady
Character: Mona Sebastian
Released: May 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds herself accused of murdering her daughter's no-good boyfriend.
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The Arm of the Law
Title: The Arm of the Law
Character: Zelma Shaw, a Dancer
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Girl Reporter
Released: October 28, 1931
Type: Movie
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.
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Morals for Women
Title: Morals for Women
Character: Claudia
Released: October 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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The Hard Hombre
Title: The Hard Hombre
Character: Senora Martini
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
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The Arizona Terror
Title: The Arizona Terror
Character: Katherine 'Kay' Moore
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
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Pleasure
Title: Pleasure
Character: Helen
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
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Goldie
Title: Goldie
Character: Constantina
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
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The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Helen Dane
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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Come Across
Title: Come Across
Character: Mary
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Mary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret dancer in a New York nightclub. The owner of the nightclub, Pop Hanson, and his criminal friends, Harry and Cassie, scheme to rip off a Montana millionaire. Finding herself interested in Harry, Mary goes along with their plan and decides to pose as his wife. The gang moves into Mary's aunt's deserted mansion as their base of operations. A silent film with sound sequences.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Birdie Goldfish
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Show Folks
Title: Show Folks
Character: Rita Carey
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.
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The Godless Girl
Title: The Godless Girl
Character: Judy Craig
Released: August 20, 1928
Type: Movie
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.
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Celebrity
Title: Celebrity
Character: Jane
Released: July 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
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Wheel of Chance
Title: Wheel of Chance
Character: Ada Berkowitz
Released: June 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Dot
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: The Dancer
Released: December 24, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Gates of Doom
Title: The Gates of Doom
Character: Agatha as a child
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant.
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Polly Put the Kettle On
Title: Polly Put the Kettle On
Character: Nellie Vance
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
To support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging Johanna Webb. Johanna's nephew, Chester Creigg, quarrels with his aunt and severs relations with her, because of her cruel treatment of her new employee, after which Polly returns to her old home. Then, when a fire breaks out at Polly's house, Chester rushes over to save her sisters, but loses his eyesight during the rescue. Convalescing from his burns, Chester learns that Johanna has died and marvels at the similarity between her and the old housemaid who is now taking care of him.
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Shoes
Title: Shoes
Character: Eva's Sister (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.