[2] Born Lillian Elizabeth Guenther in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Albert John and Janet Elizabeth (Williams) Guenther, Chandler was a leading lady in the films The Golden West[3] and Cowboy Holiday.
[4] After her family moved to Los Angeles, California, young Lillian attended girls schools (Harter, Orton).
[citation needed] Chandler moved from New York to Hollywood in 1929 "to make the grade in pictures".
[citation needed] On October 21, 1935, she married George Edward Barrett, a New York investment broker.
[7][8][9] Chandler died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on March 19, 1994, aged 82, of heart failure[2] and was interred in Bellwood Cemetery in her native Pine Bluff, Arkansas.