Biography
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.
Acted in 92
1960s
- 1967
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Viola Zickafoose
- 1966
The Emperor's New Clothes
Wringmouth
1950s
- 1957
Panic!
TV
- 1950
1930s
- 1937
Nation Aflame
Mona Franklin Burtis
Two Wise Maids
Ethel Harriman
- 1936
Country Gentlemen
Louise Heath
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
- 1935
The People's Enemy
Katherine Carr
- 1934
I Can't Escape
Mae Nichols
In Love with Life
Sharon
Stand Up and Cheer!
Zelda
Whirlpool
Helen
- 1933
Lone Cowboy
Eleanor Jones
The Iron Master
Janet Stillman
Face in the Sky
Sharon Hadley
- 1932
Officer Thirteen
Doris Dane
False Faces
Georgia Rand
The Night of June 13
Trudie Morrow
Exposure
Doris Corbin
War Correspondent
Julie March
Unholy Love
Jane Bradford
Radio Patrol
Sue Kennedy
- 1931
Misbehaving Ladies
Princess Ellen
Woman Hungry
Judith Temple
- 1930
The Gorilla
Alice Denby
The Unholy Three
Rosie O'Grady
Double Cross Roads
Mary Carlyle
Those Who Dance
Nora Brady
Murder Will Out
Jeanne Baldwin
Second Wife
Florence Wendell Fairchild
1920s
- 1929
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Love, Live & Laugh
Margharita
Flight
Elinor
Honky Tonk
Beth
The Argyle Case
Mary Morgan
Dark Streets
Katie Dean
Drag
Dot
Queen of the Night Clubs
Bea Walters
- 1928
Black Butterflies
Norma Davis
Just Married
Victoire
The Adorable Cheat
Marion Dorsey
The Little Wild Girl
Marie Cleste
The Man in Hobbles
Ann Harris
Top Sergeant Mulligan
The girl
- 1927
Million Dollar Mystery
Florence Grey
One Increasing Purpose
Elizabeth Glade
- 1926
Fascinating Youth
Lila Lee
The New Klondike
Evelyn Lane
- 1925
Old Home Week
Ethel Harmon
Coming Through
Alice Rand
The Midnight Girl
Anna
- 1924
Another Man's Wife
Helen Brand
Wandering Husbands
Diana Moreland
Love's Whirlpool
Molly
- 1923
Woman-Proof
Louise Halliday
Hollywood
Lila Lee
Homeward Bound
Mary Brent
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Chiquita
- 1922
Back Home and Broke
Mary Thorne
Ebb Tide
Ruth Attwater
The Ghost Breaker
Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
The Dictator
Juanita
The Fast Freight
Elsie
Is Matrimony a Failure?
Margaret Saxby
One Glorious Day
Molly McIntyre
Rent Free
Barbara Teller
- 1921
After the Show
Eileen
Crazy to Marry
Annabelle Landis
Gasoline Gus
Sal Jo Banty
The Dollar-a-Year Man
Peggy Bruce
The Easy Road
Ella Klotz
Midsummer Madness
Daisy Osborne
The Charm School
Elsie
- 1920
The Soul of Youth
Vera Hamilton
The Prince Chap
Claudia (age 18)
Terror Island
Beverly West
1910s
- 1919
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Princess Irma
Male and Female
Tweeny, the scullery maid
The Lottery Man
Polly
The Heart of Youth
Josephine Darchat
A Daughter of the Wolf
Annette Ainsworth
Rustling a Bride
Emily
Puppy Love
Gloria O'Connell
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox
Jane Goes A-Wooing
Lila
- 1918
Such a Little Pirate
Patricia Wolf
The Cruise of the Make-Believes
Bessie Meggison
Appearances3
1960s
- 1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
1920s
- 1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Self