Lillian Miles

Born: 1907-08-01

Birthplace: Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA

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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Known For

The Gay Divorcee
The Mad Miss Manton
Tell Your Children
The Old Homestead
Calling All Cars
The Headline Woman
The Knife of the Party
Dizzy Dames
Apples to You!
Roamin' Vandals

Top Movie Credits

The Mad Miss Manton Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Dizzy Dames Gloria Weston
Apples to You! Blonde Burlesque Queen
Roamin' Vandals La Belle Lillian