Vola Vale
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From Wikipedia She was born Vola Smith in Buffalo, New York. Vale was educated in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She began her career in amateur theatricals in Rochester, New York. Then she played in stock companies for a while. Her first movie experience was with Biograph, under the tutelage of the great film director D.W. Griffith. After a month of playing atmosphere parts, Vola was offered a genuine role. She wore a velvet gown with a train and a feathered hat. Soon she was appearing in short reel films for Biograph. Among the actors she was cast with were William S. Hart, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, William Haines, Harry Carey, Tully Marshall and William Russell. She was adept in playing Spanish, Italian, French, and Gypsy roles. Aside from Biograph Vola worked for Fox Film, Famous Players-Lasky, Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures. Her ambition was to play Madame Butterfly with an actual Japanese company, as well as to act as Lorna Doone. She was most inspired by Hayakawa and hoped to learn to act inside, as he did. With Sessue Hayakawa she made Each To His Kind (1917). Before filming began it was decided that the name Smith was too common to be used by a motion picture star. She changed her professional name to Vola Vale.
Known for
Credits
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
as Ballerina / Christines Maid (uncredited)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
as Self (uncredited)
Singing River (1920)
as Alice Thornton
Common Sense (1920)
as Violet Manners
Liberty Belles (1914)
as Boarding Schoolgirl
Soul of the Beast (1923)
as Jacqueline
Good Men and True (1922)
as Georgie Hibbler
Black Tears (1927)
Actor
The Son of His Father (1917)
as Hazel Mallinsbee
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
Actor
The Eagle's Wings (1916)
as Kitty Miles (as Vola Smith)
Perils of the Secret Service (1917)
as Minna Ober (Episode #1)
A Heart in Pawn (1919)
as Emily Stone
Each to His Kind (1917)
as Amy Dawe
Someone in the House (1920)
as Molly Brent
Cupid Entangled (1915)
as The Country Girl
The Woman He Feared (1916)
as May Clive
Wolves of the Rail (1918)
as Faith Lawson
The Soul of Pierre (1915)
Actor
Heartless Husbands (1925)
as Mrs. Jackson Cain
It Sounded Like a Kiss (1916)
as Estelle
The Winning of Sally Temple (1917)
as Lady Pamela Vauclain
The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921)
as Vesta Philbrook
The Lady in the Library (1917)
as Mildred Vandeburg
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)
as Rose Lane
Mentioned in Confidence (1917)
as Marjorie Manning
The Price of Silence (1916)
as Aline Urmy (as Vola Smith)
The Secret of Black Mountain (1917)
as Miriam Vale
The Silent Man (1917)
as Betty Bryce
Hornet's Nest (1919)
as Muriel Fletcher
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
as Mamie
Two Can Play (1926)
as Mimi Allen
The Topsy Turvy Twins (1917)
as Mattie
The Locked Heart (1918)
as Ruth Mason
The Iron Master (1914)
as The Iron Master's Sister (as Viola Smith)
Happy Though Married (1919)
as Diana Ramon
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1932)
as Townswoman
The Purple Cipher (1920)
as Jeanne Baldwin
Who Cares (1925)
as Tootles
Home Sweet Home (1926)
Actor
Six Feet Four (1919)
as Winifred Waverly
The Sky Pirate (1926)
Actor
The Midnight Flower (1923)
as Mary — a foundling
The Bond Between (1917)
as Ellen Ingram
A Master Stroke (1920)
as Minnie Patton
The Last Cigarette (1917)
as Minna Ober
Mothers-in-Law (1923)
as Ina Phillips
Hearts Asleep (1919)
as Virginia Calvert
Overland Red (1920)
as Louise Alacarme
The Iron Rider (1920)
as Mera Donovan
The Mirage (1924)
as Betty Bond
Zollenstein (1917)
as Princess Fulvia / Princess Zenia
White Oak (1921)
as Barbara
Crashin' Thru (1923)
as Diane
A Great Love (1916)
as Nell Woodward
Her Big Adventure (1926)
as Countess Fontaine
The Man Between (1923)
as Rosie - Joe Cateau's Bride