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