Lila Lee

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

121

Movies

Born: July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973
From: Union Hill, New Jersey, USA

Biography

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.

Works

98 films

Dark Streets

19297.5

Stand Up and Cheer!

19345.3

Broken Hearts

192610.0

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Gasoline Gus

19218.0

Puppy Love

19197.0

Second Wife

19307.0

Black Butterflies

19287.0

Those Who Dance

19306.2

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Love, Live & Laugh

19299.0

Blood and Sand

19225.8

The Midnight Girl

19255.8

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

19366.2

The Intruder

19334.6

Jane Goes A-Wooing

19197.0

The Prince Chap

19207.0

Champagne for Breakfast

193510.0

Hollywood

19239.0

The Ghost Breaker

192210.0

A Daughter of the Wolf

191910.0

I Can't Escape

19347.5

Male and Female

19196.4

Whirlpool

19346.4

The Man in Hobbles

19288.0

United States Smith

19288.0

The Night of June 13

19327.5

The Heart of Youth

191910.0

Is Matrimony a Failure?

192210.0

In Love with Life

19346.0

Such a Little Pirate

1918

The People's Enemy

19357.0

Just Married

19287.0

The Cruise of the Make-Believes

1918

The Marriage Bargain

19358.0

Terror Island

19205.3

Country Gentlemen

19365.5

The Lottery Man

191910.0

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

1922

The Gorilla

19309.0

Face in the Sky

19335.8

Flight

19296.6

The Unholy Three

19305.9

The Little Wild Girl

192810.0

The Emperor's New Clothes

19667.0

A Trip to Paramountown

19227.8

The Sacred Flame

19293.3

The Secret Garden

191910.0

The Easy Road

19217.0

Rustling a Bride

19197.0

The Charm School

19217.0

Queen of the Night Clubs

19298.0

You Can’t Beat the Law

19287.0

Fascinating Youth

19269.0

Officer Thirteen

19326.6

One Increasing Purpose

192710.0

The Adorable Cheat

19289.0

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

19196.3

Midsummer Madness

19213.3

Unholy Love

19324.0

Old Home Week

19258.0

Misbehaving Ladies

19319.0

One Glorious Day

19229.0

Crazy to Marry

19217.8

Woman-Proof

19238.0

The Dictator

19228.0

Two Wise Maids

193710.0

The Ne'er-Do-Well

192310.0

Ebb Tide

19228.0

Double Cross Roads

19309.0

Woman Hungry

193110.0

Love's Whirlpool

19249.0

The New Klondike

19266.0

Drag

19296.7

War Correspondent

19325.5

Nation Aflame

19375.3

Radio Patrol

193210.0

The Fast Freight

192210.0

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

19674.3

The Iron Master

19337.0

The Soul of Youth

19205.2

The Black Pearl

192810.0

Wandering Husbands

19243.0

Coming Through

19259.0

After the Show

19218.0

The Argyle Case

192910.0

Honky Tonk

192910.0

False Faces

19324.4

Lone Cowboy

19334.0

The Dollar-a-Year Man

19217.0

Murder Will Out

19307.0

Another Man's Wife

19247.0

Exposure

19325.5

Homeward Bound

19238.0

Top Sergeant Mulligan

19289.0

Back Home and Broke

19229.0

Rent Free

19229.0

Million Dollar Mystery

19277.0