Lila Leslie — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Lila Leslie, of the Lubin stock company at Philadelphia, is a native of Australia. It was there she started theatrical work and was in a company with Joseph R. Smiley, who is now her director at the Lubin plant.

She went to England and stayed there for several years, doing splendid work, and then sought the States as a new field. It was after considerable experience here that, one day, she again met Mr. Smiley.

The idea of working before the camera was a new one to her and during a trial at the Lubin studio, her work was found to be especially good before the camera so she was made a member of the stock company.

Then, last May, in a picture in which Mr. Smiley and Miss Leslie played leads and which called for a screen wedding, they gave the public a real marriage ceremony.

She was Mrs. Howard Jeffries in “The Third Degree.”

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1914