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.
Panic!
1957 · TV
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · Movie
Blood and Sand
1922 · Movie
The Show of Shows
1929 · Movie
Hollywood
1923 · Movie
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Movie
Puppy Love
1919 · Movie
Whirlpool
1934 · Movie
Woman Hungry
1931 · Movie
Lone Cowboy
1933 · Movie
Radio Patrol
1932 · Movie
Male and Female
1919 · Movie
Fascinating Youth
1926 · Movie
The Secret Garden
1919 · Movie
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961 · Movie
Gasoline Gus
1921 · Movie
Two Wise Maids
1937 · Movie
Black Butterflies
1928 · Movie
Jane Goes A-Wooing
1919 · Movie
The Unholy Three
1930 · Movie
Second Wife
1930 · Movie
A Daughter of the Wolf
1919 · Movie
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Movie
Misbehaving Ladies
1931 · Movie
Exposure
1932 · Movie
The Lottery Man
1919 · Movie
Flight
1929 · Movie
The Little Wild Girl
1928 · Movie
The Heart of Youth
1919 · Movie
The People's Enemy
1935 · Movie
Double Cross Roads
1930 · Movie
Nation Aflame
1937 · Movie
I Can't Escape
1934 · Movie
Officer Thirteen
1932 · Movie
Old Home Week
1925 · Movie
Face in the Sky
1933 · Movie
Unholy Love
1932 · Movie
In Love with Life
1934 · Movie
Dark Streets
1929 · Movie
The New Klondike
1926 · Movie
The Man in Hobbles
1928 · Movie
The Night of June 13
1932 · Movie
Is Matrimony a Failure?
1922 · Movie
The Iron Master
1933 · Movie
The Intruder
1933 · Movie
Country Gentlemen
1936 · Movie
Love, Live & Laugh
1929 · Movie
War Correspondent
1932 · Movie
Homeward Bound
1923 · Movie
Crazy to Marry
1921 · Movie
Ebb Tide
1922 · Movie
Drag
1929 · Movie
Such a Little Pirate
1918 · Movie
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922 · Movie
The Midnight Girl
1925 · Movie
False Faces
1932 · Movie
The Soul of Youth
1920 · Movie
The Argyle Case
1929 · Movie
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929 · Movie
The Cruise of the Make-Believes
1918 · Movie
Coming Through
1925 · Movie
Another Man's Wife
1924 · Movie
Just Married
1928 · Movie
One Increasing Purpose
1927 · Movie
Midsummer Madness
1921 · Movie
The Gorilla
1930 · Movie
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923 · Movie
Back Home and Broke
1922 · Movie
Murder Will Out
1930 · Movie
The Easy Road
1921 · Movie
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919 · Movie
The Dollar-a-Year Man
1921 · Movie
The Sacred Flame
1929 · Movie
Wandering Husbands
1924 · Movie
Million Dollar Mystery
1927 · Movie
The Ghost Breaker
1922 · Movie
Rent Free
1922 · Movie
The Adorable Cheat
1928 · Movie
The Prince Chap
1920 · Movie
One Glorious Day
1922 · Movie
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967 · Movie
Broken Hearts
1926 · Movie
The Dictator
1922 · Movie
Rustling a Bride
1919 · Movie
Those Who Dance
1930 · Movie
Honky Tonk
1929 · Movie
Terror Island
1920 · Movie
The Fast Freight
1922 · Movie
The Charm School
1921 · Movie
The Emperor's New Clothes
1966 · Movie
Love's Whirlpool
1924 · Movie
After the Show
1921 · Movie
Woman-Proof
1923 · Movie
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928 · Movie
