[2] Lily Cahill was born July 17, 1888, in San Antonio, Texas.

[3] She was the granddaughter of Confederate Army Colonel John Jacob Myers.

[4] She began her career in 1910 at the age of 15 playing supporting roles in several silent films directed by D.W. Griffith.

[5] In 1912 Cahill abandoned her movie career for the stage, making her Broadway debut in the short-lived play The Road to Arcady by Edith Sessions Tupper.

Cahill returned periodically to films during her career, appearing in Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915), My Sin (1931), and So This Is London (1939).