Lila Lee
Lila Lee, actually Augusta Appel ( born July 25, 1901 in Union Hill, New Jersey, † November 13, 1973 in Saranac Lake, New York ) was an American actress. She was a very busy actress of the silent film and early sound era.
Life
Lila Lee began her career as a child actress with the stage name Cuddles in vaudeville and got her first film role at age 17. She was a popular actress after they had occurred under other on the side of Gloria Swanson in Male and Female, with Thomas Meighan in the popular comedy, The Charm School and next to Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand. In 1922 she was therefore also chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. The jump in the sound film era without major problems. She had a meaty role in Lon Chaney's last film, The Unholy Three 1930. In 1932 she refused to take the role in the strip Shop Worn under the direction of Frank Capra. The part eventually went to Barbara Stanwyck, which thus had a great financial success. Comparable bad decisions led to a rapid losing weight in the favor of the audience. In 1937 she retired from the screen then back and then joined occasionally on television and in the theater on.
Her career was hampered by bouts of tuberculosis; other sources claim it had been to acute alcoholism. One of her three husbands was actor James Kirkwood, which they partly violent quarrels in public delivered and the father of her only son Jim (1924-1989) was.