Name
Vola Vale
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1897-02-12
Deathday
1970-10-17 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Biography
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.
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- 1916 The Woman He Feared as May Clive
- 1917 Perils of the Secret Service as Minna Ober (Episode #1)
- 1923 Crashin' Thru as Diane
- 1922 Good Men and True as Georgie Hibbler
- 1920 Overland Red as Louise Alacarme
- 1917 The Son of His Father as Hazel Mallinsbee
- 1917 The Bond Between as Ellen Ingram
- 1914 Liberty Belles as Boarding Schoolgirl
- 1917 The Silent Man as Betty Bryce
- 1920 Alias Jimmy Valentine as Rose Lane
- 1923 Soul of the Beast as Jacqueline
- 1921 White Oak as Barbara
- 1916 A Great Love as Nell Woodward
- 1917 The Lady in the Library as Mildred Vandeburg
- 1919 Six Feet Four as Winifred Waverly
- 1925 Little Annie Rooney as Mamie
- 2002 Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
- 1920 The Iron Rider as Mera Donovan
- 1923 The Midnight Flower as Mary — a foundling
- 1920 Common Sense as Violet Manners
- 1926 Two Can Play as Mimi Allen
- 1918 Wolves of the Rail as Faith Lawson
- 1916 The Eagle's Wings as Kitty Miles (as Vola Smith)
- 1916 The Price of Silence as Aline Urmy (as Vola Smith)
- 1926 Home Sweet Home
- 1925 The Phantom of the Opera as Ballerina / Christines Maid (uncredited)
- 1919 A Heart in Pawn as Emily Stone
- 1926 Her Big Adventure as Countess Fontaine
- 1914 The Iron Master as The Iron Master's Sister (as Viola Smith)
- 1915 The Soul of Pierre
- 1917 Zollenstein as Princess Fulvia / Princess Zenia
- 1921 The Duke of Chimney Butte as Vesta Philbrook
- 1936 One Rainy Afternoon
- 1932 Tomorrow and Tomorrow as Townswoman
- 1927 Black Tears
- 1926 The Sky Pirate
- 1925 Heartless Husbands as Mrs. Jackson Cain
- 1925 Who Cares as Tootles
- 1924 The Mirage as Betty Bond
- 1923 Mothers-in-Law as Ina Phillips
- 1923 The Man Between as Rosie - Joe Cateau's Bride
- 1920 Singing River as Alice Thornton
- 1920 Someone in the House as Molly Brent
- 1920 The Purple Cipher as Jeanne Baldwin
- 1920 A Master Stroke as Minnie Patton
- 1919 Hornet's Nest as Muriel Fletcher
- 1919 Hearts Asleep as Virginia Calvert
- 1919 Happy Though Married as Diana Ramon
- 1918 The Locked Heart as Ruth Mason
- 1917 The Secret of Black Mountain as Miriam Vale
- 1917 The Topsy Turvy Twins as Mattie
- 1917 The Last Cigarette as Minna Ober
- 1917 Mentioned in Confidence as Marjorie Manning
- 1917 The Winning of Sally Temple as Lady Pamela Vauclain
- 1917 Each to His Kind as Amy Dawe
- 1916 It Sounded Like a Kiss as Estelle
