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