Lillian Miles

Birth : 1907-08-01, Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA

Death : 1972-02-27

History

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 short in 1939 (Baby Daze), she retired from the screen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lillian Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

Baby Daze

Emma

Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.

A Clean Sweep

Mabel

Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.

The Mad Miss Manton

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Tell Your Children

Blanche

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

The Old Homestead

Peggy

A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

Get That Man

Fay Prescott, John Jr.'s Wife

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.

Code of the Mounted

Jean

A thug robs and kills a fur trapper. He is caught and locked up by the Mounties, but is soon broken out by his partner. As the Mounties investigate, they discover that the two are part of a ruthless crime ring run by a female gangster.

Dizzy Dames

Gloria Weston

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.

The Headline Woman

Trini

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.

Calling All Cars

Kay Larson

A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.

The Gay Divorcee

Singer - "Continental" number

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

Roamin' Vandals

La Belle Lillian

A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.

Apples to You!

Blonde Burlesque Queen

A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.

The Knife of the Party

Donna

A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.

Moonlight and Pretzels

Elsie Warren

A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.

Man Against Woman

Lola Parker

Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.