
Lila Lee
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.335 |
Birthday | 1905-07-25 |
Place of Birth | Union Hill, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel, Augusta Appel, |

1926

Broken Hearts
0/0
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1928

The Little Wild Girl
0/0
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1930

The Unholy Three
5.6/20
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1932

War Correspondent
3/1
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1922

Ebb Tide
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1922

Rent Free
0/0
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1926

Fascinating Youth
0/0
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1924

Another Man's Wife
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1925

Coming Through
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1922

A Trip to Paramountown
6/2
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1919

Male and Female
6.3/21
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1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
6.1/26
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1933

Lone Cowboy
3.5/2
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1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
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1935

The People's Enemy
6/1
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1922

Blood and Sand
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1919

The Lottery Man
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1921

The Charm School
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1923

Hollywood
7/1
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1932

Radio Patrol
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1932

Exposure
2/1
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1932

Officer Thirteen
6.2/4
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1919

The Secret Garden
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1925

The Midnight Girl
5.2/5
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1929

Flight
6.3/7
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1934

I Can't Escape
0/0
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1967

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
4/7
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1934

In Love with Life
5/1
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1928

The Adorable Cheat
0/0
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1936

Country Gentlemen
6.5/2
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1932

Unholy Love
3/3
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1934

Whirlpool
6.1/5
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1932

False Faces
4.3/3
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1921

Midsummer Madness
1/1
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1928

Top Sergeant Mulligan
0/0
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1932

The Night of June 13
7/3
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1929

Show of Shows
5.5/2
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1933

The Intruder
4.2/6
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1929

Love, Live & Laugh
0/0
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1926

The New Klondike
5/2
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1919

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
6.2/7
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1966

The Emperor's New Clothes
0/0
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1929

Drag
6/1
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1930

The Gorilla
0/0
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1933

Face in the Sky
4.5/2
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1921

The Dollar-a-Year Man
0/0
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1921

Gasoline Gus
0/0
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1921

Crazy to Marry
8.5/1
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1922

The Fast Freight
0/0
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1928

The Black Pearl
0/0
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1920

Terror Island
4.9/13
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1927

Million Dollar Mystery
0/0
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1933

The Iron Master
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1929

The Argyle Case
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1930

Those Who Dance
6/3
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1937

Two Wise Maids
0/0
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1937

Nation Aflame
4/3
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1930

Double Cross Roads
0/0
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1929

Honky Tonk
0/0
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1931

Misbehaving Ladies
0/0
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1929

Queen of the Night Clubs
0/0
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1922

The Ghost Breaker
0/0
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1928

Fashion News
5/1
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1928

Just Married
0/0
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1923

The Ne'er-Do-Well
0/0
A lost film.
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1923

Woman-Proof
0/0
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1920

The Soul of Youth
5.4/7
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1931

Woman Hungry
0/0
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1921

After the Show
0/0
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1927

One Increasing Purpose
0/0
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1930

Second Wife
7/2
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1922

The Dictator
0/0
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1923

Homeward Bound
0/0
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1929

The Sacred Flame
1/1
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1922

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
0/0
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (1...
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1924

Love's Whirlpool
0/0
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1924

Wandering Husbands
1/1
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1929

Dark Streets
5/1
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1922

One Glorious Day
0/0
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1934

Stand Up and Cheer!
4.8/10
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