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