Vola Vale
Acting
Born 1897-02-12
Died 1970-10-17
Buffalo, New York, USA
57 credits
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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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Filmography
Acting
52 credits
The Phantom of the Opera
Heartless Husbands
Singing River
Common Sense
Good Men and True
The Locked Heart
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
The Iron Master
Liberty Belles
Little Annie Rooney
The Eagle's Wings
Happy Though Married
The Silent Man
The Woman He Feared
The Topsy Turvy Twins
Soul of the Beast
Two Can Play
The Bond Between
A Heart in Pawn
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Lady in the Library
A Great Love
The Price of Silence
A Master Stroke
Someone in the House
Alias Jimmy Valentine
The Duke of Chimney Butte
The Midnight Flower
The Last Cigarette
White Oak
Six Feet Four
Mothers-in-Law
The Son of His Father
Mentioned in Confidence
Each to His Kind
Who Cares
The Iron Rider
Crashin' Thru
Hearts Asleep
The Winning of Sally Temple
Her Big Adventure
Overland Red
The Mirage
It Sounded Like a Kiss
The Purple Cipher
Zollenstein
Hornet's Nest
Wolves of the Rail
Perils of the Secret Service
The Secret of Black Mountain
The Man Between
Cupid Entangled
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