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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 25, 1905
Died
November 13, 1973
Place of Birth
Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel
- Augusta Appel
Lila Lee
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
4.1
Viola Zickafoose
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967
0.0
Wringmouth
The Emperor's New Clothes
1966
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
0.0
Panic!
1957
🎬
6.3
Mrs. McLean
Lux Video Theatre
1950
4.0
Mona Franklin Burtis
Nation Aflame
1937
0.0
Ethel Harriman
Two Wise Maids
1937
4.7
Louise Heath
Country Gentlemen
1936
6.2
Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
6.0
Katherine Carr
The People's Enemy
1935
Credits
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
as Viola Zickafoose
1967
4.1
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Wringmouth
1966
0.0
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
0.0
Panic!
1957
0.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mrs. McLean
1950
6.3
Nation Aflame
as Mona Franklin Burtis
1937
4.0
Two Wise Maids
as Ethel Harriman
1937
0.0
Country Gentlemen
as Louise Heath
1936
4.7
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
1936
6.2
The People's Enemy
as Katherine Carr
1935
6.0
I Can't Escape
as Mae Nichols
1934
6.0
In Love with Life
as Sharon
1934
5.0
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Zelda
1934
4.9
Whirlpool
as Helen
1934
5.9
Lone Cowboy
as Eleanor Jones
1933
2.7
The Intruder
as Connie Wayne
1933
4.0
The Iron Master
as Janet Stillman
1933
5.0
Face in the Sky
as Sharon Hadley
1933
4.7
Officer Thirteen
as Doris Dane
1932
6.2
False Faces
as Georgia Rand
1932
3.5
The Night of June 13
as Trudie Morrow
1932
7.0
Exposure
as Doris Corbin
1932
2.0
War Correspondent
as Julie March
1932
3.0
Unholy Love
as Jane Bradford
1932
2.5
Radio Patrol
as Sue Kennedy
1932
0.0
Misbehaving Ladies
as Princess Ellen
1931
0.0
Woman Hungry
as Judith Temple
1931
0.0
The Gorilla
as Alice Denby
1930
0.0
The Unholy Three
as Rosie O'Grady
1930
5.6
Double Cross Roads
as Mary Carlyle
1930
0.0
Those Who Dance
as Nora Brady
1930
6.0
Second Wife
as Florence Wendell Fairchild
1930
7.0
The Sacred Flame
as Stella Taylor
1929
1.0
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
1929
5.5
Love, Live & Laugh
as Margharita
1929
0.0
Flight
as Elinor
1929
6.3
Honky Tonk
as Beth
1929
0.0
The Argyle Case
as Mary Morgan
1929
0.0
Dark Streets
as Katie Dean
1929
5.0
Drag
as Dot
1929
6.0
Queen of the Night Clubs
as Bea Walters
1929
0.0
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The Black Pearl
as Eugenie Bromley
1928
0.0
Black Butterflies
as Norma Davis
1928
0.0
Just Married
as Victoire
1928
0.0
The Adorable Cheat
as Marion Dorsey
1928
0.0
The Little Wild Girl
as Marie Cleste
1928
0.0
Top Sergeant Mulligan
as The girl
1928
0.0
🎬
Million Dollar Mystery
as Florence Grey
1927
0.0
One Increasing Purpose
as Elizabeth Glade
1927
0.0
Fascinating Youth
as Lila Lee
1926
0.0
The New Klondike
as Evelyn Lane
1926
5.0
Broken Hearts
as Ruth Esterin
1926
0.0
Old Home Week
as Ethel Harmon
1925
0.0
Coming Through
as Alice Rand
1925
0.0
The Midnight Girl
as Anna
1925
5.2
Another Man's Wife
as Helen Brand
1924
0.0
Wandering Husbands
as Diana Moreland
1924
1.0
Love's Whirlpool
as Molly
1924
0.0
Woman-Proof
as Louise Halliday
1923
0.0
Hollywood
as Lila Lee
1923
8.5
Homeward Bound
as Mary Brent
1923
0.0
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Chiquita
1923
0.0
Back Home and Broke
as Mary Thorne
1922
0.0
Ebb Tide
as Ruth Attwater
1922
0.0
The Ghost Breaker
as Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
1922
0.0
Blood and Sand
as Carmen
1922
5.6
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
The Dictator
as Juanita
1922
0.0
The Fast Freight
as Elsie
1922
0.0
Is Matrimony a Failure?
as Margaret Saxby
1922
0.0
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
as Self
1922
0.0
One Glorious Day
as Molly McIntyre
1922
0.0
Rent Free
as Barbara Teller
1922
0.0
After the Show
as Eileen
1921
0.0
Crazy to Marry
as Annabelle Landis
1921
8.5
Gasoline Gus
as Sal Jo Banty
1921
0.0
The Dollar-a-Year Man
as Peggy Bruce
1921
0.0
The Easy Road
as Ella Klotz
1921
0.0
Midsummer Madness
as Daisy Osborne
1921
1.0
The Charm School
as Elsie
1921
0.0
The Soul of Youth
as Vera Hamilton
1920
4.9
The Prince Chap
as Claudia (age 18)
1920
0.0
Terror Island
as Beverly West
1920
4.9
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Princess Irma
1919
6.2
Male and Female
as Tweeny, the scullery maid
1919
6.3
The Lottery Man
as Polly
1919
0.0
Puppy Love
as Gloria O'Connell
1919
0.0
The Secret Garden
as Mary Lennox
1919
0.0
Jane Goes A-Wooing
1919
0.0