Yola d'Avril
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.
Gone with the Wind
as Belle's Girl (uncredited)The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...
Movie pageAll Quiet on the Western Front
as Suzanne (uncredited)When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are...
Movie pageNow, Voyager
as Celestine (uncredited)A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a...
Movie pageTarzan and His Mate
as Madame Feronde (uncredited)Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Movie pageCaptain Blood
as Girl in Tavern (uncredited)Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Movie pageSorry, Wrong Number
as Leona's Maid (uncredited)Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside...
Movie pageThe Love Parade
as Paulette (uncredited)The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Movie pageCloak and Dagger
as First NurseItalian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Movie pageKing of Jazz
as Automobile Owner's Wife ("Springtime") / Marie ("All Noisy on the Eastern Front") (uncredited)Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most...
Movie pageThe Hurricane
as Club Hibiscus Singer (uncredited)A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending...
Movie pageThe Red Ball Express
as Barmaid (uncredited)August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far...
Movie pageSvengali
as Maid (uncredited)A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and...
Movie pageThe Lady Has Plans
as Hotel Maid (uncredited)Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a...
Movie pageGreen Hell
as Native Girl (uncredited)A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Movie pageThe Man from Yesterday
as Tony's CocotteA woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor....
Movie pageJust a Gigolo
as PaulineA playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a...
Movie pageSuicide Fleet
as French Girl (uncredited)Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally...
Movie pageThe Common Law
as FifiWhen a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent...
Movie pageHot for Paris
as Yola DupreA romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
Movie pageJust Like Heaven
as FifiTobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus...
Movie pageMonte Carlo Nights
as MadelonA man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The...
Movie pageThe Last Flight
as French Party Girl at CafeCary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the...
Movie pageBeauty and the Boss
as Bathtub Phone Caller Mimi (uncredited)An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business...
Movie pageThe Truth About Youth
as Babette - Kara's Maid (uncredited)A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Movie pageI Was an Adventuress
as Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her...
Movie pageNight in New Orleans
as Mme. LamballeA policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...
Movie pageMonsieur Beaucaire
as Housekeeper (uncredited)A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he...
Movie pageI Met Him in Paris
as French Wife in Room 617Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new...
Movie pageShe Goes to War
as YvetteA young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World...
Movie pageThe Bad One
as GidaIn this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front...
Movie pageCock of the Air
as Italian girl #2An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Movie pageKansas City Princess
as French Manicurist (uncredited)Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but...
Movie pageLittle Boy Lost
as Madame Le Blanc (uncredited)A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was...
Movie pageAmerican Beauty
as Telephone GirlMillicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named...
Movie pageSky Devils
as FifiWilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes...
Movie pageGod's Gift to Women
as DagmarA notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his...
Movie pageThe Right of Way
as SuzetteSnobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the...
Movie pageThe Cat and the Fiddle
as Maid in House (uncredited)A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Movie pageThose Three French Girls
as DianeAn addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and...
Movie pageNew Movietone Follies of 1930
as uncreditedMinimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is...
Movie pageThe Valley of the Giants
as FeliceBryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also...
Movie pageLady Be Good
as AssistantTwo engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
Movie pageDiplomaniacs
as French Vamp (uncredited)Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where...
Movie page3-Ring Marriage
as MinnieAnna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with...
Movie pageA Passport to Hell
as Rosita (as Yola D'Avril)Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English...
Movie pageVamping Venus
as StenographerA present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after...
Movie pageStrange Innertube
as Diamond Joe's MollAfter graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved...
Movie pageShanghai Lady
as LizzieHaving spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns...
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