Lillian Miles
Nacimiento : 1907-08-01, Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
Muerte : 1972-02-27
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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.
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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.
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.
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Melsa Manton, una jovencita de clase alta, descubre una noche, en una casa deshabitada, un cadáver. Pero cuando llega la policía, el cuerpo ha desaparecido. Al día siguiente, un diario publica la noticia, tomando por una bromista contumaz a Melsa, quien no duda en poner un pleito al autor del artículo, Peter Ames. Deseando demostrar la verdad, Melsa y su grupo de inseparables amigas empiezan a investigar el caso. Un segundo cadáver, éste nada escurridizo, no tarda en aparecer. Los meandros de la investigación son cada vez más espesos. Y entre dudas, sospechas y amenazas, Peter Ames y Melsa Manton empiezan a constatar que del odio al amor hay sólo un minúsculo paso.
Blanche
El Dr. Alfred Carroll, director de un instituto, relata a una audiencia de padres que la marihuana puede tener efectos devastadores en los adolescentes: un proveedor de drogas atrae a varios adolescentes inquietos, Mary y Jimmy Lane, hermana y hermano, y a Bill, el novio de Mary, para que frecuenten un fumadero. Poco a poco, Bill y Jimmy se ven arrastrados a fumar droga, lo que afecta a su vida familiar.
Peggy
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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.
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.
Gloria Weston
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
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.
Kay Larson
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
Singer - "Continental" number
Musical de la RKO que tuvo un gran éxito de público, además de ser nominada al Oscar a la mejor película. Guy Holden, un célebre bailarín americano, está de viaje por Europa en compañía de su amigo y abogado Egbert. Camino de Inglaterra, un incidente en la aduana francesa le hace conocer a Mimi Glossop, que viaja con su tía. En Londres vuelve a tener un encuentro casual con ella. Guy queda profundamente enamorado de Mimi, sin saber que se trata de una mujer casada, en proceso de divorcio, cuyos trámites está llevando el propio Egbert. Guy, Egbert, Mimi y su tía volverán a coincidir en un hotel de la costa en el que se van a producir una serie de equívocos.
La Belle Lillian
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.
Blonde Burlesque Queen
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
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.
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.
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.
