Lillian Miles

Lillian Miles

Known for

Acting

Born

August 1, 1907

Birthplace

Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA

Died

February 27, 1972 (aged 64)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lillian Miles, (1907 - 1972) was an American actress in several films in the 1930s. Aside from singing and performing in the celebrated 'Continental' musical number in The Gay Divorcee (1934), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Ms. Miles film career was brief, unremarkable and confined to low-budget 'B' pictures. But she has something of a cult following nowadays for her performance in the infamous anti-dope exploitation movie Reefer Madness, made in 1936. It is she who appears in the film's most remembered sequence, playing an increasingly frenzied piano solo while Dave O'Brien shouts "play it faster, faster!".

After a role in an Edgar Kennedy s...

Best known work

The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee
1934
Tell Your Children
Tell Your Children
1938
The Mad Miss Manton
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Get That Man
Get That Man
1935
The Headline Woman
The Headline Woman
1935
Man Against Woman
Man Against Woman
1932
The Knife of the Party
The Knife of the Party
1934
Code of the Mounted
Code of the Mounted
1935
Apples to You!
Apples to You!
1934
Calling All Cars
Calling All Cars
1935

Filmography

  1. 1939

    Baby Daze

    as Emma

  2. 1938

  3. 1938

    The Mad Miss Manton

    as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

  4. 1938

  5. 1935

  6. 1935

    Get That Man

    as Fay Prescott, John Jr.'s Wife

  7. 1935

  8. 1935

    Dizzy Dames

    as Gloria Weston

  9. 1935

  10. 1935

    Calling All Cars

    as Kay Larson

  11. 1934

  12. 1934

    Roamin' Vandals

    as La Belle Lillian

  13. 1934

    Apples to You!

    as Blonde Burlesque Queen

  14. 1934

  15. 1933

    Moonlight and Pretzels

    as Elsie Warren

  16. 1932

    Man Against Woman

    as Lola Parker

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