Yola d'Avril

Yola d'Avril

Birth : 1907-04-08, Lille, France

Death : 1984-03-02

History

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.

Profile

Yola d'Avril

Movies

Little Boy Lost
Madame Le Blanc (uncredited)
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.
Sorry, Wrong Number
Leona's Maid (uncredited)
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.
Cloak and Dagger
First Nurse (uncredited)
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Monsieur Beaucaire
Housekeeper (uncredited)
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.
Now, Voyager
Celestine (uncredited)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Night in New Orleans
Mme. Lamballe
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
I Was an Adventuress
Frenchwoman at Party
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...
Green Hell
Native Girl (uncredited)
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Gone with the Wind
Belle's Girl (uncredited)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
The Hurricane
Club Hibiscus Singer (uncredited)
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.
I Met Him in Paris
French Wife in Room 617
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.
Captain Blood
Girl in Tavern (uncredited)
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Kansas City Princess
French Manicurist (uncredited)
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.
Monte Carlo Nights
Madelon
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.
Tarzan and His Mate
Madame Feronde (uncredited)
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Glamour
Renee
The Cat and the Fiddle
Maid in House (uncredited)
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Diplomaniacs
French Vamp (uncredited)
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...
A Passport to Hell
Rosita (as Yola D'Avril)
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.
A Parisian Romance
Pauline
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.
Strange Innertube
Diamond Joe's Moll
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
The Man from Yesterday
Tony's Cocotte
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.
Beauty and the Boss
Bathtub Phone Caller Mimi (uncredited)
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Sky Devils
Fifi
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.
Cock of the Air
Italian girl #2
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Suicide Fleet
French Girl in Tangiers (uncredited)
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.
The Last Flight
French Party Girl at Cafe
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.
The Common Law
Fifi
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?
Just a Gigolo
Pauline
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
Svengali
Maid (uncredited)
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
God's Gift to Women
Dagmar
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.
The Right of Way
Suzette
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs 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.
A Hollywood Theme Song
Madame von Hoppsburg
During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
The Truth About Youth
Babette - Kara's Maid (uncredited)
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Just Like Heaven
Fifi
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.
Those Three French Girls
Diane
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
New Movietone Follies of 1930
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.
The Bad One
Gida
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Suzanne (uncredited)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War I, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
King of Jazz
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 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.
The Love Parade
Paulette (uncredited)
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Hot for Paris
Yola Dupre
A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
Shanghai Lady
Lizzie
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.
She Goes to War
Yvette
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.
3-Ring Marriage
Minnie
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.
Vamping Venus
Stenographer
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
Lady Be Good
Assistant
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
The Valley of the Giants
Felice
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
American Beauty
Telephone Girl
American Beauty (1927)
Smile, Brother, Smile
Daisy
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.
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
Cafe Dancer
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
The Tender Hour
Cabaret Girl
This romantic drama was released in 1927.