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Lillian Miles

Lillian Miles

Born: 1907-08-01 • Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA

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