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.
Ruth Esterin
Film 1926
Marie Cleste
Film 1928
Rosie O'Grady
Film 1930
Julie March
Film 1932
Ruth Attwater
Film 1922
Barbara Teller
Film 1922
Lila Lee
Film 1926
Helen Brand
Film 1924
Alice Rand
Film 1925
Self
Film 1922
Tweeny, the scullery maid
Film 1919
Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
Film 1936
Eleanor Jones
Film 1933
Self (archive footage)
Film 1961
Katherine Carr
Film 1935
Carmen
Film 1922
Polly
Film 1919
Elsie
Film 1921
Lila Lee
Film 1923
Sue Kennedy
Film 1932
Doris Corbin
Film 1932
Doris Dane
Film 1932
Mary Lennox
Film 1919
Anna
Film 1925
Elinor
Film 1929
Mae Nichols
Film 1934
Viola Zickafoose
Film 1967
Sharon
Film 1934
Marion Dorsey
Film 1928
Louise Heath
Film 1936
Jane Bradford
Film 1932
Helen Rankin Morrison
Film 1934
Georgia Rand
Film 1932
Daisy Osborne
Film 1921
The girl
Film 1928
Trudie Morrow
Film 1932
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Film 1929
Connie Wayne
Film 1933
Margharita
Film 1929
Evelyn Lane
Film 1926
Princess Irma
Film 1919
Wringmouth
Film 1966
Dot
Film 1929
Alice Denby
Film 1930
Sharon Hadley
Film 1933
Peggy Bruce
Film 1921
Sal Jo Banty
Film 1921
Annabelle Landis
Film 1921
Elsie
Film 1922
Eugenie Bromley
Film 1928
Beverly West
Film 1920
Florence Grey
Film 1927
Janet Stillman
Film 1933
Mary Morgan
Film 1929
Nora Brady
Film 1930
Ethel Harriman
Film 1937
Mona Franklin Burtis
Film 1937
Mary Carlyle
Film 1930
Beth
Film 1929
Princess Ellen
Film 1931
Bea Walters
Film 1929
Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
Film 1922
Self (1930)
Film 1928
Victoire
Film 1928
Chiquita
Film 1923
Vera Hamilton
Film 1920
Judith Temple
Film 1931
Eileen
Film 1921
Elizabeth Glade
Film 1927
Florence Wendell Fairchild
Film 1930
Juanita
Film 1922
Mary Brent
Film 1923
Stella Taylor
Film 1929
Self
Film 1922
Molly
Film 1924
Diana Moreland
Film 1924
Katie Dean
Film 1929
Molly McIntyre
Film 1922
Mrs. McLean
Tv 1950
Tv 1957