Lillian Miles

Acting

Lillian Miles

Born
Died
(aged 64)
Birthplace
Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
Credits
16 titles

Biography

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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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Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 16

YearTitleRole
1939 Baby Daze Film Emma
1938 A Clean Sweep Film Mabel
1938 The Mad Miss Manton Film Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1938 Tell Your Children Film Blanche
1935 The Old Homestead Film Peggy
1935 Get That Man Film Fay Prescott, John Jr.'s Wife
1935 Code of the Mounted Film Jean
1935 Dizzy Dames Film Gloria Weston
1935 The Headline Woman Film Trini
1935 Calling All Cars Film Kay Larson
1934 The Gay Divorcee Film Guest
1934 Roamin' Vandals Film La Belle Lillian
1934 Apples to You! Film Blonde Burlesque Queen
1934 The Knife of the Party Film Donna
1933 Moonlight and Pretzels Film Elsie Warren
1932 Man Against Woman Film Lola Parker
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