Yola d'Avril

Yola d'Avril

Born: April 8, 1907
Died: March 2, 1984
in Lille, France
Yola d'Avril grew up in Paris. In 1923 she moved to Canada and became a dancer. She then went to Hollywood and, from 1925, started being cast in small roles, ultimately appearing in more than seventy films.

Movies for Yola d'Avril...

Little Boy Lost
Title: Little Boy Lost
Character: Madame Le Blanc (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1953
Type: Movie
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Leona's Maid (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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Cloak and Dagger
Title: Cloak and Dagger
Character: First Nurse
Released: September 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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Now, Voyager
Title: Now, Voyager
Character: Celestine (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Mme. Lamballe
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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I Was an Adventuress
Title: I Was an Adventuress
Character: Frenchwoman at Party
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
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Green Hell
Title: Green Hell
Character: Native Girl (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Belle's Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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The Hurricane
Title: The Hurricane
Character: Club Hibiscus Singer (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
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I Met Him in Paris
Title: I Met Him in Paris
Character: French Wife in Room 617
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Girl in Tavern (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: French Manicurist (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Monte Carlo Nights
Title: Monte Carlo Nights
Character: Madelon
Released: May 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
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Tarzan and His Mate
Title: Tarzan and His Mate
Character: Madame Feronde (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Renee
Released: April 9, 1934
Type: Movie
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Title: The Cat and the Fiddle
Character: Maid in House (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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Diplomaniacs
Title: Diplomaniacs
Character: French Vamp (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
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A Parisian Romance
Title: A Parisian Romance
Character: Pauline
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
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Strange Innertube
Title: Strange Innertube
Character: Diamond Joe's Moll
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
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A Passport to Hell
Title: A Passport to Hell
Character: Rosita (as Yola D'Avril)
Released: August 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Tony's Cocotte
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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Beauty and the Boss
Title: Beauty and the Boss
Character: Bathtub Phone Caller Mimi (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
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Sky Devils
Title: Sky Devils
Character: Fifi
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
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Cock of the Air
Title: Cock of the Air
Character: Italian girl #2
Released: January 23, 1932
Type: Movie
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: French Girl in Tangiers (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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The Last Flight
Title: The Last Flight
Character: French Party Girl at Cafe
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Fifi
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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Just a Gigolo
Title: Just a Gigolo
Character: Pauline
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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God's Gift to Women
Title: God's Gift to Women
Character: Dagmar
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Suzette
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
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A Hollywood Theme Song
Title: A Hollywood Theme Song
Character: Madame von Hoppsburg
Released: December 7, 1930
Type: Movie
During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
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The Truth About Youth
Title: The Truth About Youth
Character: Babette - Kara's Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
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Just Like Heaven
Title: Just Like Heaven
Character: Fifi
Released: October 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
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Those Three French Girls
Title: Those Three French Girls
Character: Diane
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
Title: New Movietone Follies of 1930
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.
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The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: Gida
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Suzanne (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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King of Jazz
Title: King of Jazz
Character: Automobile Owner's Wife ("Springtime") / Marie ("All Noisy on the Eastern Front") (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
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The Love Parade
Title: The Love Parade
Character: Paulette (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1930
Type: Movie
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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Hot for Paris
Title: Hot for Paris
Character: Yola Dupre
Released: December 22, 1929
Type: Movie
A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
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Shanghai Lady
Title: Shanghai Lady
Character: Lizzie
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
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She Goes to War
Title: She Goes to War
Character: Yvette
Released: June 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
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3-Ring Marriage
Title: 3-Ring Marriage
Character: Minnie
Released: June 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.
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Vamping Venus
Title: Vamping Venus
Character: Stenographer
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
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Lady Be Good
Title: Lady Be Good
Character: Assistant
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Felice
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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American Beauty
Title: American Beauty
Character: Telephone Girl
Released: October 9, 1927
Type: Movie
American Beauty (1927)
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Smile, Brother, Smile
Title: Smile, Brother, Smile
Character: Daisy
Released: September 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of money, he may soon be out of a job.
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Hard-Boiled Haggerty
Title: Hard-Boiled Haggerty
Character: Cafe Dancer
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Haggerty (Milton Sills) and his buddy, aircraft machinist Klaxon (Arthur Stone), head for Paris, albeit without an official leave of absence. In escaping from M.P.'s, Haggerty takes refuge in a room occupied by Germaine Benoit (Molly O'Day). Love soon springs up, and Haggerty decides to reform, returning to Major Cotton (Mitchell Lewis) with this resolution. He is unprepared, however, to be awarded a medal for his actions as a fighter pilot. - From Wikipedia
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The Tender Hour
Title: The Tender Hour
Character: Cabaret Girl
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
This romantic drama was released in 1927.