
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.

Hollywood

Crazy to Marry

A Trip to Paramountown

The Night of June 13

Second Wife

Male and Female

Flight

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Officer Thirteen

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

The People's Enemy

I Can't Escape

Drag

Those Who Dance

Whirlpool

The Unholy Three

Blood and Sand

The Show of Shows

The Midnight Girl

In Love with Life

The New Klondike

The Iron Master

Dark Streets

Terror Island

The Soul of Youth

Stand Up and Cheer!

Country Gentlemen

Face in the Sky

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

The Intruder

Nation Aflame

False Faces

War Correspondent

Lone Cowboy

Unholy Love

Exposure

Midsummer Madness

The Sacred Flame

Wandering Husbands

Broken Hearts

The Little Wild Girl

Ebb Tide

Rent Free

Fascinating Youth

Another Man's Wife

Coming Through

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

The Lottery Man

The Charm School

Radio Patrol

The Secret Garden

The Adorable Cheat

Top Sergeant Mulligan

Love, Live & Laugh

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Gorilla

Gasoline Gus

The Dollar-a-Year Man

The Fast Freight

Million Dollar Mystery

The Argyle Case

Two Wise Maids

Double Cross Roads

Honky Tonk

Misbehaving Ladies

Queen of the Night Clubs

The Ghost Breaker

Just Married

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Woman-Proof

Woman Hungry

After the Show

One Increasing Purpose

The Dictator

Homeward Bound

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

Love's Whirlpool

One Glorious Day

The Prince Chap

Back Home and Broke

Jane Goes A-Wooing

Puppy Love

The Easy Road

Is Matrimony a Failure?

Old Home Week

Black Butterflies

Such a Little Pirate

A Daughter of the Wolf

Rustling a Bride

The Cruise of the Make-Believes

The Heart of Youth

Murder Will Out

The Man in Hobbles

Panic!