Yola d'Avril
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: April 8, 1907
Place of Birth: Lille, France
Known For
Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Little Boy Lost
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.
Now, Voyager
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Diplomaniacs
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...
The Noose
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
The Cat and the Fiddle
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Sorry, Wrong Number
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.
The Hurricane
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.
Filmography
as Madame Le Blanc (uncredited)
as Barmaid (uncredited)
as Leona's Maid (uncredited)
as First Nurse
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
as Celestine (uncredited)
as Mme. Lamballe
as Hotel Maid (uncredited)
as Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)
as Native Girl (uncredited)
as Belle's Girl (uncredited)
as Club Hibiscus Singer (uncredited)
as French Wife in Room 617
as Girl in Tavern (uncredited)
as French Girl in Taxi
as French Manicurist (uncredited)
as Madelon
as Madame Feronde (uncredited)
as Renee
as Maid in House (uncredited)
as French Vamp (uncredited)
as Diamond Joe's Moll
as Rosita (as Yola D'Avril)
as Tony's Cocotte
as Bathtub Phone Caller Mimi (uncredited)
as Fifi
as Italian girl #2
as French Girl (uncredited)
as French Party Girl at Cafe
as Pearl
as Fifi
as Pauline
as Maid (uncredited)
as Dagmar
as Suzette
as Madame von Hoppsburg
as Babette - Kara's Maid (uncredited)
as Fifi
as Diane
as French Girl
as Gida
as Suzanne (uncredited)
as Automobile Owner's Wife ("Springtime") / Marie ("All Noisy on the Eastern Front") (uncredited)
as Happy Max's Moll
as Paulette (uncredited)
as Yola Dupre
as Lizzie
as Yvette
as Minnie
as Stenographer
as Assistant
as Cabaret Girl
as Felice
as Telephone Girl
as Telephone Operator
as Yvonne
as Mannequin