Editing Sam Warner (section)

==Personal life==
In 1925, after years of bachelorhood,<ref name="HBTHYNA9833">Sperling, Millner, and Warner (1998), p. 33-98.</ref> Warner met eighteen-year-old ''[[Ziegfeld Follies]]'' performer and actress [[Lina Basquette]] while spending time in New York visiting the Bell Laboratories. The two began an intense love affair.<ref name="HBTHYNA97">Sperling, Millner, and Warner (1998), p. 97.</ref>  On July 4, 1925, the two were married.<ref name="HBTHYNA98">Sperling, Millner, and Warner (1998), p. 98.</ref> While Warner's younger brother Jack did not object to Basquette's Catholicism, the rest of the Warner family did.<ref name=thomas4849>{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Bob|title=Clown Prince of Hollywood: The Antic Life and Times of Jack L. Warner|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=1990|pages=48, 49|isbn=0-07-064259-1}}</ref>  They refused to accept Basquette and did not acknowledge her as a member of the Warner clan.<ref name=thomas4849 />  On October 6, 1926, the couple's only child, daughter Lita, was born.<ref name="HBTHYNA115">Sperling, Millner, and Warner (1998), p. 115.</ref>

After Sam Warner's death in 1927, brother Harry asked Lina Basquette to give up custody of the couple's daughter Lita. Harry Warner claimed he was concerned that little Lita would be raised as Catholic instead of Jewish (according to Basquette, she and Sam Warner agreed to raise any female children they had as Catholic and any male children as Jewish). Harry Warner and his wife offered Lina Basquette large amounts of money to relinquish custody of her daughter but she refused.<ref name="brownlow">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lina-basquette-1441595.html|title=Obituary: Lina Basquette|last=Brownlow|first=Kevin|date=October 8, 1994|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> She finally relented after Harry Warner promised her that Lita would receive a $300,000 trust fund (${{Inflation|US|0.3|1930|r=1|fmt=c}} million today),<ref name="latimes">{{cite news|title=Lina Basquette: Her Life Is Screenplay Material Movies|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|date=August 23, 1991|work=Los Angeles Times|page=16}}</ref> with Harry Warner and his wife awarded legal custody of Lita on March 30, 1930.<ref>{{cite book|last=Eyman|first=Scott|title=The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930|url=https://archive.org/details/speedofsoundholl00eyma|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=1-439-10428-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/speedofsoundholl00eyma/page/361 361]}}</ref> Basquette quickly regretted her decision and attempted to regain custody of her daughter.<ref name="brownlow"/> Basquette, however, was never financially stable enough to do so as the Warner family launched several legal suits against her to win back Sam Warner's share of Warner Bros. studio.<ref name="latimes" /> She would only see Lita on two occasions over the next twenty years: in 1935, when Harry Warner and his family moved to Los Angeles, and when Lita married Dr. Nathan Hiatt in 1947.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Warner Sperling|first1=Cass|last2=Millner|first2=Cork|last3=Warner|first3=Jack|title=Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story|year=1994|publisher=Prima Pub.|isbn=1-559-58343-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559583435/page/265 265]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559583435/page/265}}</ref> Basquette and her daughter reconnected in 1977 when Basquette backed a lawsuit that Lita brought against her uncle Jack Warner's estate.<ref name="latimes" />