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person_profile-Lila Lee

Lila Lee Died at age: 68

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Lila Lee

Date of Birth:

Jul 25, 1905

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 13, 1973

Biography of

Lila Lee

    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.

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Filmography of

Lila Lee

Found 74 Movies in total

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

Viola Zickafoose ( Actor )

... 1967

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1961

Nation Aflame

Mona Franklin Burtis ( Actor )

... 1937

Two Wise Maids

Ethel Harriman ( Actor )

... 1937

Country Gentlemen

Louise Heath ( Actor )

... 1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist ( Actor )

... 1936

The People's Enemy

Katherine Carr ( Actor )

... 1935

I Can't Escape

Mae Nichols ( Actor )

... 1934

In Love with Life

Sharon ( Actor )

... 1934

Stand Up and Cheer!

Zelda ( Actor )

... 1934

Whirlpool

Helen Rankin Morrison ( Actor )

... 1934

Lone Cowboy

Eleanor Jones ( Actor )

... 1933

The Intruder

Connie Wayne ( Actor )

... 1933

The Iron Master

Janet Stillman ( Actor )

... 1933

Face in the Sky

Sharon Hadley ( Actor )

... 1933

Officer Thirteen

Doris Dane ( Actor )

... 1932

False Faces

Georgia Rand ( Actor )

... 1932

The Night of June 13

Trudie Morrow ( Actor )

... 1932

Exposure

Doris Corbin ( Actor )

... 1932

War Correspondent

Julie March ( Actor )

... 1932

Unholy Love

Jane Bradford ( Actor )

... 1932

Radio Patrol

Sue Kennedy ( Actor )

... 1932

Misbehaving Ladies

Princess Ellen ( Actor )

... 1931

Woman Hungry

Judith Temple ( Actor )

... 1931

The Gorilla

Alice Denby ( Actor )

... 1930

The Unholy Three

Rosie O'Grady ( Actor )

... 1930

Double Cross Roads

Mary Carlyle ( Actor )

... 1930

Those Who Dance

Nora Brady ( Actor )

... 1930

Second Wife

Florence Wendell Fairchild ( Actor )

... 1930

The Sacred Flame

Stella Taylor ( Actor )

... 1929

Show of Shows

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number ( Actor )

... 1929

Love, Live & Laugh

Margharita ( Actor )

... 1929

Flight

Elinor ( Actor )

... 1929

Honky Tonk

Beth ( Actor )

... 1929

The Argyle Case

Mary Morgan ( Actor )

... 1929

Dark Streets

Katie Dean ( Actor )

... 1929

Drag

Dot ( Actor )

... 1929

Queen of the Night Clubs

Bea Walters ( Actor )

... 1929

Just Married

Victoire ( Actor )

... 1928

The Adorable Cheat

Marion Dorsey ( Actor )

... 1928

The Little Wild Girl

Marie Cleste ( Actor )

... 1928

Top Sergeant Mulligan

The girl ( Actor )

... 1928

One Increasing Purpose

Elizabeth Glade ( Actor )

... 1927

Fascinating Youth

Lila Lee ( Actor )

... 1926

The New Klondike

Evelyn Lane ( Actor )

... 1926

Broken Hearts

Ruth Esterin ( Actor )

... 1926

Coming Through

Alice Rand ( Actor )

... 1925

The Midnight Girl

Anna ( Actor )

... 1925

Another Man's Wife

Helen Brand ( Actor )

... 1924

Wandering Husbands

Diana Moreland ( Actor )

... 1924

Love's Whirlpool

Molly ( Actor )

... 1924

Woman-Proof

Louise Halliday ( Actor )

... 1923

Hollywood

Lila Lee ( Actor )

... 1923

Homeward Bound

Mary Brent ( Actor )

... 1923

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Chiquita ( Actor )

... 1923

Ebb Tide

Ruth Attwater ( Actor )

... 1922

The Ghost Breaker

Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress ( Actor )

... 1922

Blood and Sand

Carmen ( Actor )

... 1922

The Dictator

Juanita ( Actor )

... 1922

The Fast Freight

Elsie ( Actor )

... 1922

One Glorious Day

Molly McIntyre ( Actor )

... 1922

Rent Free

Barbara Teller ( Actor )

... 1922

After the Show

Eileen ( Actor )

... 1921

Crazy to Marry

Annabelle Landis ( Actor )

... 1921

Gasoline Gus

Sal Jo Banty ( Actor )

... 1921

The Dollar-a-Year Man

Peggy Bruce ( Actor )

... 1921

Midsummer Madness

Daisy Osborne ( Actor )

... 1921

The Charm School

Elsie ( Actor )

... 1921

The Soul of Youth

Vera Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1920

Terror Island

Beverly West ( Actor )

... 1920

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

Princess Irma ( Actor )

... 1919

Male and Female

Tweeny, the scullery maid ( Actor )

... 1919

The Lottery Man

Polly ( Actor )

... 1919

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox ( Actor )

... 1919