Olive Tell

Olive Tell

  • Birthday: 1894-09-27
  • Deathday: 1951-06-06
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Olive Tell (September 27, 1894 – June 6, 1951) was a stage and screen actress from New York City. She first appeared in motion pictures during World War I. Her early screen roles were in silent films like The Silent Master (1917), The Unforeseen (1917), Her Sister (1917), and National Red Cross Pageant (1917). Tell appeared opposite such popular film actors of the era as Donald Gallaher, Karl Dane, Ann Little, Rod La Rocque, Ethel Barrymore and a young Tallulah Bankhead. Tell married First National Pictures movie producer Henry M. Hobart in 1926. Her first husband was killed in World War I. Hobart and Tell moved to California in 1926 and stayed in Hollywood for twelve years. Her final screen credits came in the late 1930s. She performed in In His Steps (1936), Polo Joe (1936) with Joe E. Brown, Easy To Take (1936), and Under Southern Stars (1937). Tell's final screen appearance was in the George Cukor directed drama Zaza (1939), starring Claudette Colbert. Olive Tell died in Bellevue Hospital in 1951 after suffering a fractured skull at the Dryden Hotel, 150 East Thirty-Ninth Street, New York City, where she resided. She was fifty-six years old.

Filmography

The Scarlet Empress

1934

As Princess Johanna Elizabeth

Devotion

1931

As Mrs. Trent

Four Hours to Kill!

1935

As Mrs. Madison

Under Southern Stars

1937

As Mrs. Jackson

Polo Joe

1936

As Mrs. Hilton

The Witching Hour

1934

As Mrs. Helen Thorne

Ladies' Man

1931

As Mrs. Fendley

Cock o' the Walk

1930

As Rosa Vallejo

False Faces

1932

As Mrs. Day

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1929

As Mrs. Gertrude Rice

Ten Cents a Dance

1931

As Mrs. Carlton

The Very Idea

1929

As Marion Green

Brilliant Marriage

1936

As Mrs. Jane Taylor

The Trap

1919

As The Schoolteacher Heroine

Shanghai

1935

As Mrs. Hilton

The Silent Master

1917

As Miss Virginia Arlen

Slaves of Beauty

1927

As Anastasia Jones

The Unforseen

1917

As Margaret Fielding

Wings of Pride

1920

As Olive Muir

Lawful Larceny

1930

As Vivan Hepburn

Strictly Personal

1933

As Mrs. Laura Castleton

Delicious

1931

As Mrs. Van Bergh

Womanhandled

1925

As Lucy Chatham

The Right of Way

1930

As Kathleen

Hearts in Exile

1929

As Annna Reskova

Baby Take a Bow

1934

As Mrs. Carson

Woman Hungry

1931

As Betty Temple

The Prince of Tempters

1926

As Duchess of Chatsfield

National Red Cross Pageant

1917

As Louvain - Flemish episode

Secret Strings

1918

As Janet Newell

Sailors' Wives

1928

As Careth Lindsey

Summer Bachelors

1926

As Mrs. Preston Smith

Love Without Question

1920

As Katherine

Soft Living

1928

As Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen

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