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.
100 acting credits
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Lux Video Theatre
1950
Panic!
1957
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Hollywood
1923
Whirlpool
1934
The Show of Shows
1929
Lone Cowboy
1933
Terror Island
1920
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Male and Female
1919
Radio Patrol
1932
The Unholy Three
1930
Woman Hungry
1931
Blood and Sand
1922
The Ghost Breaker
1922
The Night of June 13
1932
Fascinating Youth
1926
False Faces
1932
The Argyle Case
1929
Exposure
1932
I Can't Escape
1934
The People's Enemy
1935
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
Nation Aflame
1937
War Correspondent
1932
The Emperor's New Clothes
1966
The Dictator
1922
Misbehaving Ladies
1931
The Iron Master
1933
Dark Streets
1929
Flight
1929
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
One Glorious Day
1922
Woman-Proof
1923
Face in the Sky
1933
The Lottery Man
1919
Honky Tonk
1929
Unholy Love
1932
Second Wife
1930
Country Gentlemen
1936
Double Cross Roads
1930
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967
Just Married
1928
The Midnight Girl
1925
The Intruder
1933
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
In Love with Life
1934
Drag
1929
Wandering Husbands
1924
Two Wise Maids
1937
Champagne for Breakfast
1935
Coming Through
1925
The Soul of Youth
1920
Officer Thirteen
1932
Rent Free
1922
The Secret Garden
1919
The Adorable Cheat
1928
Those Who Dance
1930
One Increasing Purpose
1927
Murder Will Out
1930
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922
Ebb Tide
1922
The Gorilla
1930
Love's Whirlpool
1924
Is Matrimony a Failure?
1922
Rustling a Bride
1919
The Little Wild Girl
1928
The New Klondike
1926
Homeward Bound
1923
Gasoline Gus
1921
The Prince Chap
1920
The Cruise of the Make-Believes
1918
The Sacred Flame
1929
The Fast Freight
1922
After the Show
1921
The Charm School
1921
Midsummer Madness
1921
Puppy Love
1919
Black Butterflies
1928
Crazy to Marry
1921
A Daughter of the Wolf
1919
United States Smith
1928
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928
Another Man's Wife
1924
The Black Pearl
1928
Million Dollar Mystery
1927
Jane Goes A-Wooing
1919
Such a Little Pirate
1918
The Dollar-a-Year Man
1921
Broken Hearts
1926
Back Home and Broke
1922
The Marriage Bargain
1935
Old Home Week
1925
The Heart of Youth
1919
The Man in Hobbles
1928
The Easy Road
1921
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
You Can’t Beat the Law
1928