Lila Lee
Known for Acting · 100 credits
- Born
- 1905-07-25
- Died
- 1973-11-13
- Place of birth
- Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel · Augusta Appel
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
TV Shows (2)
Movies (98)
Second Wife
1930
as Florence Wendell Fairchild
Puppy Love
1919
as Gloria O'Connell
Gasoline Gus
1921
as Sal Jo Banty
The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
You Can’t Beat the Law
1928
as Patricia Berry
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
as Zelda
The Lottery Man
1919
as Polly
Broken Hearts
1926
as Ruth Esterin
Jane Goes A-Wooing
1919
as Lila
Rustling a Bride
1919
as Emily
Black Butterflies
1928
as Norma Davis
Blood and Sand
1922
as Carmen
The Heart of Youth
1919
as Josephine Darchat
The Ghost Breaker
1922
as Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
Those Who Dance
1930
as Nora Brady
The Easy Road
1921
as Ella Klotz
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
as Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
Such a Little Pirate
1918
as Patricia Wolf
The Charm School
1921
as Elsie
Male and Female
1919
as Tweeny, the scullery maid
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
United States Smith
1928
as Molly Malone
The Midnight Girl
1925
as Anna
The Marriage Bargain
1935
as Helen Stanhope
The Man in Hobbles
1928
as Ann Harris
Fascinating Youth
1926
as Lila Lee
Champagne for Breakfast
1935
as Natalie Morton
The Prince Chap
1920
as Claudia (age 18)
I Can't Escape
1934
as Mae Nichols
Misbehaving Ladies
1931
as Princess Ellen
Is Matrimony a Failure?
1922
as Margaret Saxby
Radio Patrol
1932
as Sue Kennedy
Exposure
1932
as Doris Corbin
Old Home Week
1925
as Ethel Harmon
The Cruise of the Make-Believes
1918
as Bessie Meggison
The Little Wild Girl
1928
as Marie Cleste
The Dictator
1922
as Juanita
The Soul of Youth
1920
as Vera Hamilton
A Daughter of the Wolf
1919
as Annette Ainsworth
Face in the Sky
1933
as Sharon Hadley
Lone Cowboy
1933
as Eleanor Jones
The Unholy Three
1930
as Rosie O'Grady
The Intruder
1933
as Connie Wayne
The Secret Garden
1919
as Mary Lennox
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
Drag
1929
as Dot
The People's Enemy
1935
as Katherine Carr
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
as Margharita
Homeward Bound
1923
as Mary Brent
Unholy Love
1932
as Jane Bradford
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Princess Irma
Dark Streets
1929
as Katie Dean
Terror Island
1920
as Beverly West
War Correspondent
1932
as Julie March
Whirlpool
1934
as Helen
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928
as The girl
Flight
1929
as Elinor
Coming Through
1925
as Alice Rand
Two Wise Maids
1937
as Ethel Harriman
The Emperor's New Clothes
1966
as Wringmouth
The New Klondike
1926
as Evelyn Lane
Hollywood
1923
as Lila Lee
Nation Aflame
1937
as Mona Franklin Burtis
Another Man's Wife
1924
as Helen Brand
Just Married
1928
as Victoire
Midsummer Madness
1921
as Daisy Osborne
The Sacred Flame
1929
as Stella Taylor
One Increasing Purpose
1927
as Elizabeth Glade
In Love with Life
1934
as Sharon
Double Cross Roads
1930
as Mary Carlyle
Country Gentlemen
1936
as Louise Heath
Woman Hungry
1931
as Judith Temple
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929
as Bea Walters
The Night of June 13
1932
as Trudie Morrow
Woman-Proof
1923
as Louise Halliday
The Argyle Case
1929
as Mary Morgan
False Faces
1932
as Georgia Rand
The Adorable Cheat
1928
as Marion Dorsey
Million Dollar Mystery
1927
as Florence Grey
Wandering Husbands
1924
as Diana Moreland
Honky Tonk
1929
as Beth
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922
as Self
Officer Thirteen
1932
as Doris Dane
Murder Will Out
1930
as Jeanne Baldwin
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
as Chiquita
The Iron Master
1933
as Janet Stillman
One Glorious Day
1922
as Molly McIntyre
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967
as Viola Zickafoose
The Gorilla
1930
as Alice Denby
Rent Free
1922
as Barbara Teller
Love's Whirlpool
1924
as Molly
Crazy to Marry
1921
as Annabelle Landis
The Fast Freight
1922
as Elsie
Back Home and Broke
1922
as Mary Thorne
After the Show
1921
as Eileen
The Dollar-a-Year Man
1921
as Peggy Bruce
The Black Pearl
1928
as Eugenie Bromley
Ebb Tide
1922
as Ruth Attwater
About 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.… With 100 credits spanning from 1918 to 1967, Lila Lee has appeared in 98 films and 2 TV shows.
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Most Popular Lila Lee Movies
- Second Wife (1930) — as Florence Wendell Fairchild
- Puppy Love (1919) — as Gloria O'Connell
- Gasoline Gus (1921) — as Sal Jo Banty
- The Show of Shows (1929) — as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
- You Can’t Beat the Law (1928) — as Patricia Berry
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