Lina Basquette, well known dancer and musical comedy star, rehearsing new steps for a coming production on a ledge of the roof of the Hotel Commodore. Twenty eight stories below is 42nd Street, whose hurrying throngs are unaware of the dancer balanced far above their heads. 1920s photograph. American. George Rinhart, photographer. Corbis via Getty Images and @vintagemoviestars on Instagram. via Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/C2x_bzaviFa/ Lina Basquette photographed in a publicity still for the 1928 part-talkie sound drama film Show Folks which was directed by Paul L. Stein. https://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com/2011/09/miss-lina-basquette.htmlLina Basquette (1907 – 1994) the American child star and dancer who was a leading lady of the 20s and during her life had seven husbands. She is pictured in her drawing room at home in Hollywood, looking at press cuttings. Image ca. 1929-1931. Photograph that seems to be from the same session as a photograph of Lina Basquette with a woodcut portrait of herself that was published in the July 1929 issue of Picture Play magazine. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. via @vitaphonezone on Instagram. via Instagram. Getty link here https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/lina-basquette-the-american-child-star-and-dancer-who-was-a-news-photo/3252265Lina Basquette and Tom Keene in the 1928 film The Godless Girl, an American sound part-talkie dramatic directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Image via https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0060012/mediaviewer/rm3283305728/
