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