8.5
8.5
Crazy to Marry
1921
as Annabelle Landis
Lila Lee
Acting
Born:July 25, 1905
Died:November 13, 1973(aged 68)
Birthplace:Union Hill, New Jersey, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (78 movies)
7.0
7.0
Second Wife
1930
as Florence Wendell Fairchild
7.0
7.0
The Night of June 13
1932
as Trudie Morrow
6.3
6.3
Male and Female
1919
as Tweeny, the scullery maid
6.3
6.3
Flight
1929
as Elinor
6.2
6.2
Officer Thirteen
1932
as Doris Dane
6.2
6.2
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
as Miss Prentiss, Bradford's Receptionist
6.2
6.2
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Princess Irma
6.0
6.0
The People's Enemy
1935
as Katherine Carr
6.0
6.0
Those Who Dance
1930
as Nora Brady
6.0
6.0
I Can't Escape
1934
as Mae Nichols
6.0
6.0
Drag
1929
as Dot
5.9
5.9
Whirlpool
1934
as Helen
5.6
5.6
Blood and Sand
1922
as Carmen
5.6
5.6
The Unholy Three
1930
as Rosie O'Grady
5.5
5.5
The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
5.2
5.2
The Midnight Girl
1925
as Anna
5.0
5.0
Dark Streets
1929
as Katie Dean
5.0
5.0
The New Klondike
1926
as Evelyn Lane
5.0
5.0
In Love with Life
1934
as Sharon
5.0
5.0
The Iron Master
1933
as Janet Stillman
4.9
4.9
Terror Island
1920
as Beverly West
4.9
4.9
The Soul of Youth
1920
as Vera Hamilton
4.7
4.7
Country Gentlemen
1936
as Louise Heath
4.7
4.7
Face in the Sky
1933
as Sharon Hadley
4.1
4.1
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967
as Viola Zickafoose
4.0
4.0
Nation Aflame
1937
as Mona Franklin Burtis
4.0
4.0
The Intruder
1933
as Connie Wayne
3.5
3.5
False Faces
1932
as Georgia Rand
3.0
3.0
War Correspondent
1932
as Julie March
2.7
2.7
Lone Cowboy
1933
as Eleanor Jones
2.5
2.5
Unholy Love
1932
as Jane Bradford
2.0
2.0
Exposure
1932
as Doris Corbin
1.0
1.0
The Sacred Flame
1929
as Stella Taylor
1.0
1.0
Wandering Husbands
1924
as Diana Moreland
1.0
1.0
Midsummer Madness
1921
as Daisy Osborne
The Lottery Man
1919
as Polly
The Charm School
1921
as Elsie
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928
as The girl
Million Dollar Mystery
1927
as Florence Grey
Back Home and Broke
1922
as Mary Thorne
Jane Goes A-Wooing
1919
Puppy Love
1919
as Gloria O'Connell
Radio Patrol
1932
as Sue Kennedy
One Increasing Purpose
1927
as Elizabeth Glade
One Glorious Day
1922
as Molly McIntyre
The Adorable Cheat
1928
as Marion Dorsey
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
as Margharita
The Emperor's New Clothes
1966
as Wringmouth
The Gorilla
1930
as Alice Denby
The Dollar-a-Year Man
1921
as Peggy Bruce
Gasoline Gus
1921
as Sal Jo Banty
The Fast Freight
1922
as Elsie
The Black Pearl
1928
as Eugenie Bromley
Two Wise Maids
1937
as Ethel Harriman
Double Cross Roads
1930
as Mary Carlyle
Honky Tonk
1929
as Beth
Misbehaving Ladies
1931
as Princess Ellen
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929
as Bea Walters
The Argyle Case
1929
as Mary Morgan
The Ghost Breaker
1922
as Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
Just Married
1928
as Victoire
Woman Hungry
1931
as Judith Temple
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
as Chiquita
Woman-Proof
1923
as Louise Halliday
After the Show
1921
as Eileen
The Dictator
1922
as Juanita
Homeward Bound
1923
as Mary Brent
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922
as Self
Love's Whirlpool
1924
as Molly
Broken Hearts
1926
as Ruth Esterin
The Prince Chap
1920
as Claudia (age 18)
The Little Wild Girl
1928
as Marie Cleste
Ebb Tide
1922
as Ruth Attwater
Rent Free
1922
as Barbara Teller
The Secret Garden
1919
as Mary Lennox
Another Man's Wife
1924
as Helen Brand
Coming Through
1925
as Alice Rand
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