Lila Lee
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Broken Hearts (1926)
as Ruth Esterin
Gasoline Gus (1921)
as Sal Jo Banty
Puppy Love (1919)
as Gloria O'Connell
Second Wife (1930)
as Florence Wendell Fairchild
Love, Live & Laugh (1929)
as Margharita
Black Butterflies (1928)
as Norma Davis
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
as Zelda
Blood and Sand (1922)
as Carmen
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
as Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
You Can’t Beat the Law (1928)
as Patricia Berry
Male and Female (1919)
as Tweeny, the scullery maid
Rustling a Bride (1919)
as Emily
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
as Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
A Daughter of the Wolf (1919)
as Annette Ainsworth
The Night of June 13 (1932)
as Trudie Morrow
The Charm School (1921)
as Elsie
Flight (1929)
as Elinor
The Man in Hobbles (1928)
as Ann Harris
Lone Cowboy (1933)
as Eleanor Jones
Whirlpool (1934)
as Helen
Those Who Dance (1930)
as Nora Brady
Such a Little Pirate (1918)
as Patricia Wolf
The Prince Chap (1920)
as Claudia (age 18)
The Midnight Girl (1925)
as Anna
The Marriage Bargain (1935)
as Helen Stanhope
The Dictator (1922)
as Juanita
The Heart of Youth (1919)
as Josephine Darchat
I Can't Escape (1934)
as Mae Nichols
The Lottery Man (1919)
as Polly
The Iron Master (1933)
as Janet Stillman
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
as Chiquita
Terror Island (1920)
as Beverly West
Hollywood (1923)
as Lila Lee
Champagne for Breakfast (1935)
as Natalie Morton
Radio Patrol (1932)
as Sue Kennedy
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Fascinating Youth (1926)
as Lila Lee
Old Home Week (1925)
as Ethel Harmon
Ebb Tide (1922)
as Ruth Attwater
Crazy to Marry (1921)
as Annabelle Landis
Unholy Love (1932)
as Jane Bradford
Midsummer Madness (1921)
as Daisy Osborne
Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
as Margaret Saxby
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Princess Ellen
The Little Wild Girl (1928)
as Marie Cleste
The People's Enemy (1935)
as Katherine Carr
Woman Hungry (1931)
as Judith Temple
The Sacred Flame (1929)
as Stella Taylor
United States Smith (1928)
as Molly Malone
Face in the Sky (1933)
as Sharon Hadley
Dark Streets (1929)
as Katie Dean
After the Show (1921)
as Eileen
The Cruise of the Make-Believes (1918)
as Bessie Meggison
One Increasing Purpose (1927)
as Elizabeth Glade
Murder Will Out (1930)
as Jeanne Baldwin
The Emperor's New Clothes (1966)
as Wringmouth
Jane Goes A-Wooing (1919)
as Lila
The Soul of Youth (1920)
as Vera Hamilton
Honky Tonk (1929)
as Beth
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Two Wise Maids (1937)
as Ethel Harriman
Woman-Proof (1923)
as Louise Halliday
Country Gentlemen (1936)
as Louise Heath
Homeward Bound (1923)
as Mary Brent
Wandering Husbands (1924)
as Diana Moreland
The Unholy Three (1930)
as Rosie O'Grady
False Faces (1932)
as Georgia Rand
In Love with Life (1934)
as Sharon
The Secret Garden (1919)
as Mary Lennox
Coming Through (1925)
as Alice Rand
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 (1922)
as Self
The Easy Road (1921)
as Ella Klotz
The Intruder (1933)
as Connie Wayne
Love's Whirlpool (1924)
as Molly
Back Home and Broke (1922)
as Mary Thorne
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967)
as Viola Zickafoose
War Correspondent (1932)
as Julie March
Queen of the Night Clubs (1929)
as Bea Walters
Top Sergeant Mulligan (1928)
as The girl
The Gorilla (1930)
as Alice Denby
Officer Thirteen (1932)
as Doris Dane
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
as Princess Irma
Drag (1929)
as Dot
The Fast Freight (1922)
as Elsie
Rent Free (1922)
as Barbara Teller
The Adorable Cheat (1928)
as Marion Dorsey
Just Married (1928)
as Victoire
The New Klondike (1926)
as Evelyn Lane
Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Mary Carlyle
One Glorious Day (1922)
as Molly McIntyre
The Argyle Case (1929)
as Mary Morgan
Nation Aflame (1937)
as Mona Franklin Burtis
The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921)
as Peggy Bruce
Another Man's Wife (1924)
as Helen Brand
Exposure (1932)
as Doris Corbin
The Black Pearl (1928)
as Eugenie Bromley
Million Dollar Mystery (1927)
as Florence Grey