Yola d'Avril
Date of birth: 1907-04-08
Place of birth: Lille, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Yola D'Avril, Yola Vermairion, Yola d'Avril Montiague
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.
Movie Credits
A Hollywood Theme Song
1930-12-07
During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
The Bad One
1930-05-03
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for
Night in New Orleans
1942-07-01
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under int
Monte Carlo Nights
1934-05-20
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The prob
Sky Devils
1932-03-12
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes the
Just a Gigolo
1931-06-06
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young B
A Parisian Romance
1932-10-01
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women'
Just Like Heaven
1930-10-21
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usu
The Right of Way
1930-12-11
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the sam
I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new sui
God's Gift to Women
1931-04-13
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor th
The Common Law
1931-07-17
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent pas
Cock of the Air
1932-01-23
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
A Passport to Hell
1932-08-25
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman
Tarzan and His Mate
1934-04-20
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Hot for Paris
1929-12-22
Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that
Svengali
1931-05-20
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife
She Goes to War
1929-06-07
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War
Smile, Brother, Smile
1927-09-11
A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of m
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-04-29
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to
Those Three French Girls
1930-10-10
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and lea
The Hurricane
1937-11-09
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself a
Glamour
1934-04-09
An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leav
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
1927-08-21
After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Hagge
King of Jazz
1930-04-20
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravaga
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof
The Last Flight
1931-08-29
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devast
The Valley of the Giants
1927-12-04
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the g
Kansas City Princess
1934-09-14
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie
Green Hell
1940-01-26
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
The Red Ball Express
1952-05-29
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward
Strange Innertube
1932-09-16
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a
I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac
Diplomaniacs
1933-04-28
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they
Beauty and the Boss
1932-04-09
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to
The Truth About Youth
1930-11-03
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
The Man from Yesterday
1932-06-24
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr
The Lady Has Plans
1942-01-20
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946-09-04
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masque
The Love Parade
1930-01-18
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Now, Voyager
1942-10-22
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948-09-24
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world.
Suicide Fleet
1931-11-20
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who wo
The Cat and the Fiddle
1934-02-16
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Captain Blood
1935-12-26
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Cloak and Dagger
1946-09-28
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Little Boy Lost
1953-09-21
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered b
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930-05-04
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in
American Beauty
1927-10-09
Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Clave
3-Ring Marriage
1928-06-10
Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her
Vamping Venus
1928-05-13
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receivi
The Tender Hour
1927-05-01
Marcia Kane, daughter of an American capitalist, is persuaded by her father to marry the expatriated
Shanghai Lady
1929-11-17
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to
Lady Be Good
1928-05-06
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
Straight from the Heart
1935-03-22
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help
Women Go on Forever
1931-08-15
In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake
Born Reckless
1930-05-11
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in
Double Cross Roads
1930-04-20
Ex-convict David Harvey attempts to go straight and settles in a small town where he meets and falls
So This Is Paris Green
1930-01-16
House of Horror
1929-04-28
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The
The Awakening
1928-11-17
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Tur
The Noose
1928-01-29
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his b
Orchids and Ermine
1927-03-06
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams
The War Horse
1927-02-06
When his horse is conscripted by the government for service in France, Buck Thomas enlists and becom
Have Courage
1926-12-12
Sad sack gob Billy finds himself challenged to two duels at the same time in the French countryside
Mister Wife
1926-07-04
Hitchin' Up
1926-06-20
Fresh Faces
1926-04-25
Bingville is holding a beauty contest and the three finalists are Mary, Dora, and the Village Vamp.
The Midnight Sun
1926-04-23
Yes, Yes, Babette
1925-12-27
Bobby, the doughboy, has left his sweetheart behind in Paris. He returns for her and has the greates
Madame Behave
1925-12-06
A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a l
Seven Days
1925-09-20
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapp
Madame Sans-Gêne
1925-01-02
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
The Dressmaker from Paris
1925-03-30
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks
Charley's Aunt
1925-02-07
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Braz