Lila Lee

Lila Lee (born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel, on 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 in the late of Lee on an arduous publicity campaign. Critics lauded Lila for her wholesome persona and sympathetic to the character of the party. 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 Tv star, and frequent, Reid's co-star, who was leaving the business, and at this stage in her career, an even stronger resemblance to the Marguerite Clark.