Lillian Miles

Who was Lillian Miles?

Lillian Miles was an American actress in several films in the nineteen thirties. Aside from singing and performing in the celebrated 'Continental' musical number in The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Ms. Miles' film career was brief, unremarkable, and confined to low-budget 'B' pictures. However, she has something of a cult following nowadays for her performance in the infamous anti-dope exploitation movie Reefer Madness, made in nineteen thirty-six. 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, she retired from the screen.