
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