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.

Фільмографія

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

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (3)

• 1961The Legend of Rudolph Valentino — Self (archive footage)
• 1922A Trip to Paramountown — Self
• 1922The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 — Self