Vola Vale

Vola Vale

Acting 1897-02-12 Buffalo, New York, USA

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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1932 Townswoman
1926 Mimi Allen
1926 Countess Fontaine
1925 Mamie
1925 Ballerina / Christines Maid (uncredited)
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1925 Mrs. Jackson Cain
1925 Tootles
1924 Betty Bond
1923 Diane
1923 Jacqueline
1923 Mary — a foundling
1923 Ina Phillips
1923 Rosie - Joe Cateau's Bride
1922 Georgie Hibbler
1921 Barbara
1921 Vesta Philbrook
1920 Louise Alacarme
1920 Rose Lane
1920 Mera Donovan
1920 Violet Manners
1920 Alice Thornton
1920 Molly Brent
1920 Jeanne Baldwin
1920 Minnie Patton
1919 Winifred Waverly
1919 Emily Stone
1919 Muriel Fletcher
1919 Virginia Calvert
1919 Diana Ramon
1918 Faith Lawson
1918 Ruth Mason
1917 Minna Ober (Episode #1)
1917 Hazel Mallinsbee
1917 Ellen Ingram
1917 Betty Bryce
1917 Mildred Vandeburg
1917 Princess Fulvia / Princess Zenia
1917 Miriam Vale
1917 Mattie
1917 Minna Ober
1917 Marjorie Manning
1917 Lady Pamela Vauclain
1917 Amy Dawe
1916 May Clive
1916 Nell Woodward
1916 Kitty Miles (as Vola Smith)
1916 Aline Urmy (as Vola Smith)
1916 Estelle
1914 Boarding Schoolgirl
1914 The Iron Master's Sister (as Viola Smith)