Lila Lee
95 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 25, 1905
- Died
- Nov 13, 1973 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel · Augusta Appel
Biography
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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.
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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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Known for
Lila Lee: movies and TV shows
Acting (97)
- 1967 Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
as Viola Zickafoose
- 1966 The Emperor's New Clothes
as Wringmouth
- 1957
- 1950
- 1937 Nation Aflame
as Mona Franklin Burtis
- 1937 Two Wise Maids
as Ethel Harriman
- 1936 Country Gentlemen
as Louise Heath
- 1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
- 1935 Champagne for Breakfast
as Natalie Morton
- 1935 The People's Enemy
as Katherine Carr
- 1935 The Marriage Bargain
as Helen Stanhope
- 1934 I Can't Escape
as Mae Nichols
- 1934 In Love with Life
as Sharon
- 1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
as Zelda
- 1934 Whirlpool
as Helen
- 1933 Lone Cowboy
as Eleanor Jones
- 1933 The Intruder
as Connie Wayne
- 1933 The Iron Master
as Janet Stillman
- 1933 Face in the Sky
as Sharon Hadley
- 1932 Officer Thirteen
as Doris Dane
- 1932 False Faces
as Georgia Rand
- 1932 The Night of June 13
as Trudie Morrow
- 1932 Exposure
as Doris Corbin
- 1932 War Correspondent
as Julie March
- 1932 Unholy Love
as Jane Bradford
- 1932 Radio Patrol
as Sue Kennedy
- 1931 Misbehaving Ladies
as Princess Ellen
- 1931 Woman Hungry
as Judith Temple
- 1930 The Gorilla
as Alice Denby
- 1930 The Unholy Three
as Rosie O'Grady
- 1930 Double Cross Roads
as Mary Carlyle
- 1930 Those Who Dance
as Nora Brady
- 1930 Murder Will Out
as Jeanne Baldwin
- 1930 Second Wife
as Florence Wendell Fairchild
- 1929 The Sacred Flame
as Stella Taylor
- 1929 The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
- 1929 Love, Live & Laugh
as Margharita
- 1929 Flight
as Elinor
- 1929 Honky Tonk
as Beth
- 1929 The Argyle Case
as Mary Morgan
- 1929 Dark Streets
as Katie Dean
- 1929 Drag
as Dot
- 1929 Queen of the Night Clubs
as Bea Walters
- 1928 The Black Pearl
as Eugenie Bromley
- 1928 Black Butterflies
as Norma Davis
- 1928 Just Married
as Victoire
- 1928 The Adorable Cheat
as Marion Dorsey
- 1928 The Little Wild Girl
as Marie Cleste
- 1928 United States Smith
as Molly Malone
- 1928 The Man in Hobbles
as Ann Harris
- 1928 You Can’t Beat the Law
as Patricia Berry
- 1928 Top Sergeant Mulligan
as The girl
- 1927 Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Grey
- 1927 One Increasing Purpose
as Elizabeth Glade
- 1926 Fascinating Youth
as Lila Lee
- 1926 The New Klondike
as Evelyn Lane
- 1926 Broken Hearts
as Ruth Esterin
- 1925 Old Home Week
as Ethel Harmon
- 1925 Coming Through
as Alice Rand
- 1925 The Midnight Girl
as Anna
- 1924 Another Man's Wife
as Helen Brand
- 1924 Wandering Husbands
as Diana Moreland
- 1924 Love's Whirlpool
as Molly
- 1923 Woman-Proof
as Louise Halliday
- 1923 Hollywood
as Lila Lee
- 1923 Homeward Bound
as Mary Brent
- 1923 The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Chiquita
- 1922 Back Home and Broke
as Mary Thorne
- 1922 Ebb Tide
as Ruth Attwater
- 1922 The Ghost Breaker
as Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
- 1922 Blood and Sand
as Carmen
- 1922 The Dictator
as Juanita
- 1922 The Fast Freight
as Elsie
- 1922 Is Matrimony a Failure?
as Margaret Saxby
- 1922 One Glorious Day
as Molly McIntyre
- 1922 Rent Free
as Barbara Teller
- 1921 After the Show
as Eileen
- 1921 Crazy to Marry
as Annabelle Landis
- 1921 Gasoline Gus
as Sal Jo Banty
- 1921 The Dollar-a-Year Man
as Peggy Bruce
- 1921 The Easy Road
as Ella Klotz
- 1921 Midsummer Madness
as Daisy Osborne
- 1921 The Charm School
as Elsie
- 1920 The Soul of Youth
as Vera Hamilton
- 1920 The Prince Chap
as Claudia (age 18)
- 1920 Terror Island
as Beverly West
- 1919 Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Princess Irma
- 1919 Male and Female
as Tweeny, the scullery maid
- 1919 The Lottery Man
as Polly
- 1919 The Heart of Youth
as Josephine Darchat
- 1919 A Daughter of the Wolf
as Annette Ainsworth
- 1919 Rustling a Bride
as Emily
- 1919 Puppy Love
as Gloria O'Connell
- 1919 The Secret Garden
as Mary Lennox
- 1919 Jane Goes A-Wooing
as Lila
- 1918 Such a Little Pirate
as Patricia Wolf
- 1918 The Cruise of the Make-Believes
as Bessie Meggison
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 1961
- 1922
- 1922