Lila Lee

🎂 Data nașterii: 1905-07-25 (Union Hill, New Jersey, USA)

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.

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Broken Hearts

The Little Wild Girl

The Unholy Three

War Correspondent

Ebb Tide

Rent Free

Fascinating Youth

Another Man's Wife

Coming Through

A Trip to Paramountown

Male and Female

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Lone Cowboy

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

The People's Enemy

Blood and Sand

The Lottery Man

The Charm School

Hollywood

Radio Patrol

Exposure

Officer Thirteen

The Secret Garden

The Midnight Girl

Flight

I Can't Escape

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

In Love with Life

The Adorable Cheat

Country Gentlemen

Unholy Love

Whirlpool

False Faces

Midsummer Madness

Top Sergeant Mulligan

The Night of June 13

The Show of Shows

The Intruder

Love, Live & Laugh

The New Klondike

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Drag

The Gorilla

Face in the Sky

The Dollar-a-Year Man

Gasoline Gus

Crazy to Marry

The Fast Freight

The Black Pearl

Terror Island

Million Dollar Mystery

The Iron Master

The Argyle Case

Those Who Dance

Two Wise Maids

Nation Aflame

Double Cross Roads

Honky Tonk

Misbehaving Ladies

Queen of the Night Clubs

The Ghost Breaker

Just Married

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Woman-Proof

The Soul of Youth

Woman Hungry

After the Show

One Increasing Purpose

Second Wife

The Dictator

Homeward Bound

The Sacred Flame

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

Love's Whirlpool

Wandering Husbands

Dark Streets

One Glorious Day