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