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Lila Lee
Born · July 25, 1905
Died · November 13, 1973 (68 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
Bio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lila Lee (born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel, July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973) was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras. In 1918, she was chosen for a film contract by Hollywood film mogul Jesse Lasky for Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, which later became Paramount Pictures. Her first feature, The Cruise of the Make-Believes, garnered the teenaged starlet much public acclaim and Lasky quickly sent Lee on an arduous publicity campaign. Critics lauded Lila for her wholesome persona and sympathetic character parts. Lee quickly rose to the ranks of leading lady and often starred opposite such matinee heavies as Conrad Nagel, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Reid, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, and Rudolph Valentino. Lee bore more than a slight resemblance to Ann Little, a former Paramount star and frequent Reid co-star who was leaving the film business and at this stage in her career an even stronger resemblance to Marguerite Clark. In 1922 Lee was cast as Carmen in the enormously popular film Blood and Sand, opposite matinee idol Rudolph Valentino and silent screen vamp Nita Naldi; Lee subsequently won the first WAMPAS Baby Stars award that year. Lee continued to be a highly popular leading lady throughout the 1920s and made scores of critically praised and widely watched films. As the Roaring Twenties drew to a close, Lee's popularity began to wane and Lee positioned herself for the transition to talkies. She is one of the few leading ladies of the silent screen whose popularity did not nosedive with the coming of sound. She went back to working with the major studios and appeared, most notably, in The Unholy Three, in 1930, opposite Lon Chaney Sr. in his only talkie. However, a series of bad career choices and bouts of recurring tuberculosis and alcoholism hindered further projects and Lee was relegated to taking parts in mostly grade B movies.
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Viola Zickafoose
4.0
1967
The Emperor's New Clothes
Wringmouth
0.0
1966
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1961
Panic!
(1 episode)
0.0
1957
Lux Video Theatre
Mrs. McLean · (1 episode)
6.0
1950
Nation Aflame
Mona Franklin Burtis
4.0
1937
Two Wise Maids
Ethel Harriman
0.0
1937
Country Gentlemen
Louise Heath
6.5
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
6.1
1936
The People's Enemy
Katherine Carr
6.0
1935
I Can't Escape
Mae Nichols
0.0
1934
In Love with Life
Sharon
5.0
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
Zelda
4.8
1934
Whirlpool
Helen Rankin Morrison
5.6
1934
Lone Cowboy
Eleanor Jones
3.5
1933
The Intruder
Connie Wayne
4.2
1933
The Iron Master
Janet Stillman
0.0
1933
Face in the Sky
Sharon Hadley
4.5
1933
Officer Thirteen
Doris Dane
6.2
1932
False Faces
Georgia Rand
4.3
1932
The Night of June 13
Trudie Morrow
7.0
1932
Exposure
Doris Corbin
2.0
1932
War Correspondent
Julie March
3.0
1932
Unholy Love
Jane Bradford
3.0
1932
Radio Patrol
Sue Kennedy
0.0
1932
Misbehaving Ladies
Princess Ellen
0.0
1931
Woman Hungry
Judith Temple
0.0
1931
The Gorilla
Alice Denby
0.0
1930
The Unholy Three
Rosie O'Grady
5.3
1930
Double Cross Roads
Mary Carlyle
0.0
1930
Those Who Dance
Nora Brady
6.0
1930
Second Wife
Florence Wendell Fairchild
7.0
1930
The Sacred Flame
Stella Taylor
1.0
1929
Show of Shows
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
5.5
1929
Love, Live & Laugh
Margharita
0.0
1929
Flight
Elinor
6.3
1929
Honky Tonk
Beth
0.0
1929
The Argyle Case
Mary Morgan
0.0
1929
Dark Streets
Katie Dean
5.0
1929
Drag
Dot
6.0
1929
Queen of the Night Clubs
Bea Walters
0.0
1929
The Black Pearl
Eugenie Bromley
0.0
1928
Fashion News
Self (1930)
5.0
1928
Just Married
Victoire
0.0
1928
The Adorable Cheat
Marion Dorsey
0.0
1928
The Little Wild Girl
Marie Cleste
0.0
1928
Top Sergeant Mulligan
The girl
0.0
1928
Million Dollar Mystery
0.0
1927
One Increasing Purpose
Elizabeth Glade
0.0
1927
Fascinating Youth
Lila Lee
0.0
1926
The New Klondike
Evelyn Lane
5.0
1926
Broken Hearts
Ruth Esterin
0.0
1926
Coming Through
Alice Rand
0.0
1925
The Midnight Girl
Anna
5.2
1925
Another Man's Wife
Helen Brand
0.0
1924
Wandering Husbands
Diana Moreland
1.0
1924
Love's Whirlpool
Molly
0.0
1924
Woman-Proof
Louise Halliday
0.0
1923
Hollywood
Lila Lee
7.0
1923
Homeward Bound
Mary Brent
0.0
1923
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Chiquita
0.0
1923
Ebb Tide
Ruth Attwater
0.0
1922
The Ghost Breaker
Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
0.0
1922
Blood and Sand
Carmen
5.6
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
6.0
1922
The Dictator
Juanita
0.0
1922
The Fast Freight
Elsie
0.0
1922
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Self
0.0
1922
One Glorious Day
Molly McIntyre
0.0
1922
Rent Free
Barbara Teller
0.0
1922
After the Show
Eileen
0.0
1921
Crazy to Marry
Annabelle Landis
8.5
1921
Gasoline Gus
Sal Jo Banty
0.0
1921
The Dollar-a-Year Man
Peggy Bruce
0.0
1921
Midsummer Madness
Daisy Osborne
1.0
1921
The Charm School
Elsie
0.0
1921
The Soul of Youth
Vera Hamilton
5.4
1920
Terror Island
Beverly West
4.9
1920
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Princess Irma
5.6
1919
Male and Female
Tweeny, the scullery maid
6.3
1919
The Lottery Man
Polly
0.0
1919
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox
0.0
1919