From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLila 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, Lees 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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Broken Hearts

Ruth Esterin

Movie 1926

The Little Wild Girl

Marie Cleste

Movie 1928

The Unholy Three

Rosie O'Grady

Movie 1930

War Correspondent

Julie March

Movie 1932

Ebb Tide

Ruth Attwater

Movie 1922

Rent Free

Barbara Teller

Movie 1922

Fascinating Youth

Lila Lee

Movie 1926

Another Man's Wife

Helen Brand

Movie 1924

Coming Through

Alice Rand

Movie 1925

A Trip to Paramountown

Self

Movie 1922

Male and Female

Tweeny, the scullery maid

Movie 1919

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist

Movie 1936

Lone Cowboy

Eleanor Jones

Movie 1933

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

Movie 1961

The People's Enemy

Katherine Carr

Movie 1935

Blood and Sand

Carmen

Movie 1922

The Lottery Man

Polly

Movie 1919

The Charm School

Elsie

Movie 1921

Hollywood

Lila Lee

Movie 1923

Radio Patrol

Sue Kennedy

Movie 1932

Exposure

Doris Corbin

Movie 1932

Officer Thirteen

Doris Dane

Movie 1932

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox

Movie 1919

The Midnight Girl

Anna

Movie 1925

Flight

Elinor

Movie 1929

I Can't Escape

Mae Nichols

Movie 1934

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

Viola Zickafoose

Movie 1967

In Love with Life

Sharon

Movie 1934

The Adorable Cheat

Marion Dorsey

Movie 1928

Country Gentlemen

Louise Heath

Movie 1936

Unholy Love

Jane Bradford

Movie 1932

Whirlpool

Helen Rankin Morrison

Movie 1934

False Faces

Georgia Rand

Movie 1932

Midsummer Madness

Daisy Osborne

Movie 1921

Top Sergeant Mulligan

The girl

Movie 1928

The Night of June 13

Trudie Morrow

Movie 1932

Show of Shows

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Movie 1929

The Intruder

Connie Wayne

Movie 1933

Love, Live & Laugh

Margharita

Movie 1929

The New Klondike

Evelyn Lane

Movie 1926

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

Princess Irma

Movie 1919

The Emperor's New Clothes

Wringmouth

Movie 1966

Drag

Dot

Movie 1929

The Gorilla

Alice Denby

Movie 1930

Face in the Sky

Sharon Hadley

Movie 1933

The Dollar-a-Year Man

Peggy Bruce

Movie 1921

Gasoline Gus

Sal Jo Banty

Movie 1921

Crazy to Marry

Annabelle Landis

Movie 1921

The Fast Freight

Elsie

Movie 1922

The Black Pearl

Eugenie Bromley

Movie 1928

Terror Island

Beverly West

Movie 1920

Million Dollar Mystery

Florence Grey

Movie 1927

The Iron Master

Janet Stillman

Movie 1933

The Argyle Case

Mary Morgan

Movie 1929

Those Who Dance

Nora Brady

Movie 1930

Two Wise Maids

Ethel Harriman

Movie 1937

Nation Aflame

Mona Franklin Burtis

Movie 1937

Double Cross Roads

Mary Carlyle

Movie 1930

Honky Tonk

Beth

Movie 1929

Misbehaving Ladies

Princess Ellen

Movie 1931

Queen of the Night Clubs

Bea Walters

Movie 1929

The Ghost Breaker

Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress

Movie 1922

Fashion News

Self (1930)

Movie 1928

Just Married

Victoire

Movie 1928

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Chiquita

Movie 1923

The Soul of Youth

Vera Hamilton

Movie 1920

Woman Hungry

Judith Temple

Movie 1931

After the Show

Eileen

Movie 1921

One Increasing Purpose

Elizabeth Glade

Movie 1927

Second Wife

Florence Wendell Fairchild

Movie 1930

The Dictator

Juanita

Movie 1922

Homeward Bound

Mary Brent

Movie 1923

The Sacred Flame

Stella Taylor

Movie 1929

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

Self

Movie 1922

Love's Whirlpool

Molly

Movie 1924

Wandering Husbands

Diana Moreland

Movie 1924

Dark Streets

Katie Dean

Movie 1929

One Glorious Day

Molly McIntyre

Movie 1922

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Lux Video Theatre

Mrs. McLean

Tv 1950

Panic!

Tv 1957