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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 12, 1897
Died
October 17, 1970
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Violet Irene Smith
- Viola Smith
- Vola Smith
Vola Vale
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self (uncredited)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002
4.6
One Rainy Afternoon
1936
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Townswoman
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1932
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Black Tears
1927
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Home Sweet Home
1926
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The Sky Pirate
1926
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Mimi Allen
Two Can Play
1926
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Countess Fontaine
Her Big Adventure
1926
6.9
Mamie
Little Annie Rooney
1925
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Mrs. Jackson Cain
Heartless Husbands
1925
Credits
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
as Self (uncredited)
2002
0.0
One Rainy Afternoon
1936
4.6
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
as Townswoman
1932
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🎬
Black Tears
1927
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Home Sweet Home
1926
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🎬
The Sky Pirate
1926
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Two Can Play
as Mimi Allen
1926
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🎬
Her Big Adventure
as Countess Fontaine
1926
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Little Annie Rooney
as Mamie
1925
6.9
🎬
Heartless Husbands
as Mrs. Jackson Cain
1925
0.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as Ballerina / Christines Maid (uncredited)
1925
7.1
Who Cares
as Tootles
1925
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The Mirage
as Betty Bond
1924
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The Midnight Flower
as Mary — a foundling
1923
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Mothers-in-Law
as Ina Phillips
1923
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The Man Between
as Rosie - Joe Cateau's Bride
1923
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Soul of the Beast
as Jacqueline
1923
6.0
Crashin' Thru
as Diane
1923
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Good Men and True
as Georgie Hibbler
1922
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The Duke of Chimney Butte
as Vesta Philbrook
1921
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White Oak
as Barbara
1921
5.8
The Iron Rider
as Mera Donovan
1920
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Singing River
as Alice Thornton
1920
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Someone in the House
as Molly Brent
1920
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The Purple Cipher
as Jeanne Baldwin
1920
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A Master Stroke
as Minnie Patton
1920
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Common Sense
as Violet Manners
1920
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Overland Red
as Louise Alacarme
1920
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
as Rose Lane
1920
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Six Feet Four
as Winifred Waverly
1919
5.5
Hornet's Nest
as Muriel Fletcher
1919
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Hearts Asleep
as Virginia Calvert
1919
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A Heart in Pawn
as Emily Stone
1919
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Happy Though Married
as Diana Ramon
1919
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The Locked Heart
as Ruth Mason
1918
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Wolves of the Rail
as Faith Lawson
1918
6.0
The Silent Man
as Betty Bryce
1917
4.5
Zollenstein
as Princess Fulvia / Princess Zenia
1917
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The Son of His Father
as Hazel Mallinsbee
1917
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The Lady in the Library
as Mildred Vandeburg
1917
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The Secret of Black Mountain
as Miriam Vale
1917
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The Topsy Turvy Twins
as Mattie
1917
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The Bond Between
as Ellen Ingram
1917
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The Last Cigarette
as Minna Ober
1917
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Perils of the Secret Service
as Minna Ober (Episode #1)
1917
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Mentioned in Confidence
as Marjorie Manning
1917
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The Winning of Sally Temple
as Lady Pamela Vauclain
1917
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Each to His Kind
as Amy Dawe
1917
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It Sounded Like a Kiss
as Estelle
1916
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The Price of Silence
as Aline Urmy (as Vola Smith)
1916
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The Eagle's Wings
as Kitty Miles (as Vola Smith)
1916
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The Woman He Feared
as May Clive
1916
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A Great Love
as Nell Woodward
1916
5.0
The Soul of Pierre
1915
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The Iron Master
as The Iron Master's Sister (as Viola Smith)
1914
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Liberty Belles
as Boarding Schoolgirl
1914
5.0