Vola Vale

Vola Vale

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.

  • Popularity : 0.665
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1897-02-12
  • Place of Birth : Buffalo, New York, USA
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Vola Vale Movies

  • 1916
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    The Woman He Feared

    The Woman He Feared

    1 1916 HD

    Henry Clive, a wealthy widower, placed his small daughter, May, in a convent when she was a mere child, and now that her education is completed takes...

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  • 1917
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    Perils of the Secret Service

    Perils of the Secret Service

    1 1917 HD

    A 9-part movie serial

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  • 1922
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    Good Men and True

    Good Men and True

    1 1922 HD

    J. Wesley Pringle and S. S. Thorpe are running against each other for sheriff. Unscrupulous Thorpe has his gang kidnap Pringle to prevent his win but...

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  • 1923
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    Crashin' Thru

    Crashin' Thru

    1 1923 HD

    Gracia, a half-breed Indian girl, plots with Cons Saunders to steal cattle from Blake because he is oblivious to her charms. With his stock gone, he...

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  • 1920
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    Overland Red

    Overland Red

    1 1920 HD

    Overland Red, a tramp prospector, and Collie, the boy he has befriended, stumble across an aged miner in the last stages of starvation, whose pockets...

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  • 1917
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    The Son of His Father

    The Son of His Father

    1 1917 HD

    A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young...

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  • 1917
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    The Bond Between

    The Bond Between

    1 1917 HD

    Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One evening at the museum, Pierre finds a highly...

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  • 1914
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    Liberty Belles

    Liberty Belles

    5 1914 HD

    Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.

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  • 1917
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    The Silent Man

    The Silent Man

    4.5 1917 HD

    A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans...

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  • 1920
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    Alias Jimmy Valentine

    Alias Jimmy Valentine

    1 1920 HD

    The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surprise-ending tale was adapted into a stage play by...

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  • 1923
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    Soul of the Beast

    Soul of the Beast

    6 1923 HD

    This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.

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  • 1921
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    White Oak

    White Oak

    5.8 1921 HD

    Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak...

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  • 1916
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    A Great Love

    A Great Love

    5 1916 HD

    Kenneth Reynolds tells Nelly’s daughter the story of his love for Nelly. Kenneth was in love with Nelly, but the arrival of a stranger drove...

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  • 1917
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    The Lady in the Library

    The Lady in the Library

    1 1917 HD

    Mildred Vandeburg, an heiress who devotes her time to a hospital that she has built in the slums, breaks her engagement to her fiancé, T....

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  • 1919
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    Six Feet Four

    Six Feet Four

    5.5 1919 HD

    A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy...

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  • 1925
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    Little Annie Rooney

    Little Annie Rooney

    6.9 1925 HD

    A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film...

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  • 2002
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    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    1 2002 HD

    The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

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  • 1920
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    The Iron Rider

    The Iron Rider

    1 1920 HD

    When law and order fade into distant memory in Angel City, the townspeople yearn for the era of the Iron Riders, a band of men who took justice into...

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  • 1923
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    The Midnight Flower

    The Midnight Flower

    1 1923 HD

    Mary is called the "Midnight Flower" because each evening at midnight she does a wild dance atop a gaming table in a local gambling den. A young...

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  • 1920
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    Common Sense

    Common Sense

    1 1920 HD

    Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he...

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  • 1926
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    Two Can Play

    Two Can Play

    1 1926 HD

    Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father...

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  • 1918
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    Wolves of the Rail

    Wolves of the Rail

    6 1918 HD

    Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with...

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  • 1916
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    The Eagle's Wings

    The Eagle's Wings

    1 1916 HD

    A senator fights for the passage of a war-preparedness bill, while foreign spies conspire to plan an invasion.

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  • 1916
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    The Price of Silence

    The Price of Silence

    1 1916 HD

    A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.

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  • 1926
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    Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera

    7.1 1925 HD

    The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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  • 1919
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    A Heart in Pawn

    A Heart in Pawn

    1 1919 HD

    Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has...

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  • 1926
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    Her Big Adventure

    Her Big Adventure

    1 1926 HD

    Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He...

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  • 1914
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    The Iron Master

    The Iron Master

    1 1914 HD

    Between the wealth of the aristocrat and the fortune of the successful tradesman there is a great social difference, which is emphasized in this...

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  • 1915
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    The Soul of Pierre

    The Soul of Pierre

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1917
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    Zollenstein

    Zollenstein

    1 1917 HD

    Through negotiations with the neighboring monarch, the King of Zollenstein arranges for his son to marry the Princess of Saxonia, but later discovers...

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  • 1921
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    The Duke of Chimney Butte

    The Duke of Chimney Butte

    1 1921 HD

    Lambert, a young man out to make his fortune, is out west trying to sell a gadget that can peel potatoes, open cans, pull out nails and perform other...

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  • 1936
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    One Rainy Afternoon

    One Rainy Afternoon

    4.6 1936 HD

    Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to...

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  • 1932
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    Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    1 1932 HD

    A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

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  • 1927
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    Black Tears

    Black Tears

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Sky Pirate

    The Sky Pirate

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1925
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    Heartless Husbands

    Heartless Husbands

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1925
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    Who Cares

    Who Cares

    1 1925 HD

    Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of...

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  • 1924
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    The Mirage

    The Mirage

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1923
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    Mothers-in-Law

    Mothers-in-Law

    1 1923 HD

    Farmer's son David Wingate marries city girl Vianna Courtleigh over his parents' objections. Her father gives him a job with the company; a baby is...

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  • 1923
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    The Man Between

    The Man Between

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1920
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    Singing River

    Singing River

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1920
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    Someone in the House

    Someone in the House

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Purple Cipher

    The Purple Cipher

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1920
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    A Master Stroke

    A Master Stroke

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1919
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    Hornet's Nest

    Hornet's Nest

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1919
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    Hearts Asleep

    Hearts Asleep

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1919
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    Happy Though Married

    Happy Though Married

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1918
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    The Locked Heart

    The Locked Heart

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Secret of Black Mountain

    The Secret of Black Mountain

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Topsy Turvy Twins

    The Topsy Turvy Twins

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Last Cigarette

    The Last Cigarette

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    Mentioned in Confidence

    Mentioned in Confidence

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Winning of Sally Temple

    The Winning of Sally Temple

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    Each to His Kind

    Each to His Kind

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1916
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    It Sounded Like a Kiss

    It Sounded Like a Kiss

    1 1916 HD

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