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