Actor
Lillian Miles
August 1, 1907 · Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
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.
Often works with
Jack La Rue
3 titles together
The Headline Woman, Man Against Woman, Calling All Cars
Finis Barton
2 titles together
The Gay Divorcee, Get That Man
Roger Pryor
2 titles together
The Headline Woman, Moonlight and Pretzels
Syd Saylor
2 titles together
The Headline Woman, Code of the Mounted
Wheeler Oakman
2 titles together
The Headline Woman, Code of the Mounted
Billy Gilbert
2 titles together
Apples to You!, Roamin' Vandals
Full filmography · 16
Baby Daze
as Emma
1939A Clean Sweep
as Mabel
1938
The Mad Miss Manton
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
19386.4
Tell Your Children
as Blanche
19384.4
The Old Homestead
as Peggy
1935
Get That Man
as Fay Prescott, John Jr.'s Wife
1935
Code of the Mounted
as Jean
1935
Dizzy Dames
as Gloria Weston
1935
The Headline Woman
as Trini
1935
Calling All Cars
as Kay Larson
1935
The Gay Divorcee
as Guest
19346.9
Roamin' Vandals
as La Belle Lillian
1934