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