Lina Basquette
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.
The Godless Girl
as Judy CraigHigh school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic...
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Morals for Women
as ClaudiaA desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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Four Men and a Prayer
as Ah-NeeThe sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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The Younger Generation
as Birdie GoldfishSoap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by...
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Rose of the Rio Grande
as AnitaThe story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic...
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The Buccaneer
as RoxanneFrench pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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The Noose
as DotIn this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing...
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Paradise Park
as NadaHope springs eternal in this heartwarming tale about the citizens of a small West Virginia town...
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Show Folks
as Rita CareyEddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the...
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Souls at Sea
as Brunette in Saloon (uncredited)Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...
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A Night for Crime
as Mona HarrisonA dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a...
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Celebrity
as JaneKid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to...
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Wheel of Chance
as Ada BerkowitzA Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that...
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The Arizona Terror
as Katherine 'Kay' MooreCaptain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the...
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The Hard Hombre
as Senora MartiniWhen Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw...
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Shoes
as Eva's Sister (uncredited)A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes...
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The Phantom Express
as BettyRailroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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Goldie
as ConstantinaSailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo,...
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Ebb Tide
as Attwater's ServantIn 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke,...
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Come Across
as MaryMary, a high society girl, wants to see how the other half lives, so she becomes a cabaret...
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The Final Hour
as BelleA down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to...
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The Midnight Lady
as Mona SebastianThe hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised...
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Hello Trouble
as Janet KenyonAfter killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the...
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Pleasure
as HelenA novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
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The Dude Wrangler
as Helen DaneIn order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude...
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Trapped
as Girl ReporterThe Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from...
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The Gates of Doom
as Agatha as a childIndore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince...
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Polly Put the Kettle On
as Nellie VanceTo support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging...
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