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