Lina Basquette

Lina Basquette 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 Selections Silver, a 1927 Hollywood High School student who started an atheist society, a 20th-century child prodigy, and feminist and socialist orator, accused of leaving atheist pamphlets in student lockers at Hollywood High School in 1927.