Lila Lee
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.
Known For
Ruth Esterin
Broken Hearts
Marie Cleste
The Little Wild Girl
Rosie O'Grady
The Unholy Three
Julie March
War Correspondent
Ruth Attwater
Ebb Tide
Barbara Teller
Rent Free
Lila Lee
Fascinating Youth
Helen Brand
Another Man's Wife
Alice Rand
Coming Through
Self
A Trip to Paramountown
Tweeny, the scullery maid
Male and Female
Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Eleanor Jones
Lone Cowboy
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Katherine Carr
The People's Enemy
Carmen
Blood and Sand
Polly
The Lottery Man
Elsie
The Charm School
Lila Lee
Hollywood
Sue Kennedy
Radio Patrol
Doris Corbin
Exposure
Doris Dane
Officer Thirteen
Mary Lennox
The Secret Garden
Anna
The Midnight Girl
Elinor
Flight
Mae Nichols
I Can't Escape
Viola Zickafoose
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Sharon
In Love with Life
Marion Dorsey
The Adorable Cheat
Louise Heath
Country Gentlemen
Jane Bradford
Unholy Love
Helen Rankin Morrison
Whirlpool
Georgia Rand
False Faces
Daisy Osborne
Midsummer Madness
The girl
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Trudie Morrow
The Night of June 13
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Show of Shows
Connie Wayne
The Intruder
Margharita
Love, Live & Laugh
Evelyn Lane
The New Klondike
Princess Irma
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Wringmouth
The Emperor's New Clothes
Dot
Drag
Alice Denby
The Gorilla
Sharon Hadley
Face in the Sky
Sal Jo Banty
Gasoline Gus
Peggy Bruce
The Dollar-a-Year Man
Elsie
The Fast Freight
Annabelle Landis
Crazy to Marry
Eugenie Bromley
The Black Pearl
Beverly West
Terror Island
Janet Stillman
The Iron Master
Florence Grey
Million Dollar Mystery
Mary Morgan
The Argyle Case
Nora Brady
Those Who Dance
Ethel Harriman
Two Wise Maids
Mona Franklin Burtis
Nation Aflame
Mary Carlyle
Double Cross Roads
Beth
Honky Tonk
Princess Ellen
Misbehaving Ladies
Bea Walters
Queen of the Night Clubs
Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
The Ghost Breaker
Victoire
Just Married
Chiquita
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Louise Halliday
Woman-Proof
Vera Hamilton
The Soul of Youth
Judith Temple
Woman Hungry
Eileen
After the Show
Elizabeth Glade
One Increasing Purpose
Florence Wendell Fairchild
Second Wife
Juanita
The Dictator
Mary Brent
Homeward Bound
Stella Taylor
The Sacred Flame
Self
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Molly
Love's Whirlpool
Diana Moreland
Wandering Husbands
Katie Dean
Dark Streets
Molly McIntyre
One Glorious Day
Zelda
Stand Up and Cheer!
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Female
Birthday
1905-07-25
Place of Birth
Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel