1. Lina Basquette is noted for her 75-year career in entertainment, which began during the silent film era.
33 Facts About Lina Basquette
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Lina Basquette was noted for her several marriages, including her first, to the much older noted producer, Sam Warner, a co-founder of Warner Bros.
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Lina Basquette wrote several books on dog breeding as well.
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Lina Basquette was spotted in Louie the 14th by Sam Warner, film producer and co-founder of Warner Bros.
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Lina Basquette did not want to marry him, as he was twenty years older than she.
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Lina Basquette spent years battling Warner's family over money and custody of the couple's daughter.
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Lina Basquette returned to work in 1928, appearing in four films.
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Lina Basquette plays the title character Judith, who is based on Queen Silver, a child prodigy who early made speeches as a socialist activist.
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Lina Basquette later recalled that she received a fan letter from Adolf Hitler saying that she was his favorite movie star.
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Lina Basquette was unofficially blacklisted in Hollywood due to her legal battles with the Warner family, which was trying to take custody of her daughter with Sam Warner in order to rear her as Jewish, and challenged settlement of his estate.
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Lina Basquette made a successful transition to sound films and appeared in some Western films in the 1930s.
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In January 1937, Lina Basquette was offered a contract with the Universum Film AG studio in Germany after the Nazi Party had taken power.
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Lina Basquette later claimed that Hitler made a pass at her, and she kicked him in the groin.
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When he persisted, Lina Basquette told him that her maternal grandfather, Lazarus Rosenberg, was Jewish.
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Lina Basquette performed in nightclubs and on the vaudeville circuit.
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In 1947, Lina Basquette used money from a trust fund left to her by her first husband, Sam Warner, and purchased a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Lina Basquette became the single biggest winner of Great Dane breed shows and was known as a noted dog breeder.
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Lina Basquette wrote several books on the subject of dog breeding.
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Lina Basquette continued to judge dog shows for the American Kennel Club and wrote a monthly column for Kennel Review.
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Lina Basquette's films were screened in Washington, DC at the National Gallery of Art and at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Lina Basquette played a grandmother who dreamed God was coming to grant a wish to residents of an Appalachian trailer park.
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Lina Basquette died of pneumonia caused by sinusitis as well as epidural and subdural abscesses on October 5,1927.
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Shortly after the marriage, Harry Warner, Sam Warner's older brother, asked Lina Basquette give up custody of her daughter Lita.
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Lina Basquette was concerned that she would raise Lita as a Roman Catholic like her rather than in the Jewish faith.
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Lina Basquette said that she and Sam Warner had agreed to raise any female children they had as Catholic and any male children as Jewish.
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Lina Basquette finally relented after Harry Warner promised her that Lita would receive a $300,000 trust fund.
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Lina Basquette quickly regretted her decision and tried to regain custody of her daughter.
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Lina Basquette was saved when a guest heard her screams.
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Lina Basquette was never financially stable enough to regain custody of her daughter.
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Basquette and her daughter reconnected in 1977 when Basquette backed a lawsuit that Lita brought against her uncle Jack L Warner's estate.
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Lina Basquette died of leukemia three weeks after they were married.
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Dempsey ended the affair in July 1932 after which Lina Basquette attempted suicide a second time.
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On September 30,1994, Lina Basquette died of lymphoma at her home in Wheeling, West Virginia, at the age of 87.