Personal Life
In 1925, after years of bachelorhood, Sam met eighteen-year-old Ziegfeld Follies actress Lina Basquette while spending time in New York visiting the Bell Laboratories and began an intense love affair with her. On July 4, 1925, the two were married. While Sam's younger brother Jack did not object to Lina's Catholicism, the rest of the Warner family did. They refused to have any part in Lina's life, and did not acknowledge her as a member of the Warner clan. On October 6, 1926, the couple's only child, daughter Lita, was born. In 1930, the now-widowed Lina went broke, and shortly afterwards lost custody of Lita to Sam's older brother Harry.
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