Olive Tell
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.
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- 1937 · Under Southern Stars as Mrs. Jackson
- 1936 · Polo Joe as Mrs. Hilton
- 1936 · Brilliant Marriage as Mrs. Jane Taylor
- 1935 · Shanghai as Mrs. Hilton
- 1935 · Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Madison
- 1934 · Baby Take a Bow as Mrs. Carson
- 1934 · The Scarlet Empress as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
- 1934 · The Witching Hour as Mrs. Helen Thorne
- 1933 · Strictly Personal as Mrs. Laura Castleton
- 1932 · False Faces as Mrs. Day
- 1931 · Delicious as Mrs. Van Bergh
- 1931 · Devotion as Mrs. Trent
- 1931 · Ladies' Man as Mrs. Fendley
- 1931 · Woman Hungry as Betty Temple
- 1931 · Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Carlton
- 1930 · The Right of Way as Kathleen
- 1930 · Lawful Larceny as Vivan Hepburn
- 1930 · Cock o' the Walk as Rosa Vallejo
- 1929 · The Very Idea as Marion Green
- 1929 · Hearts in Exile as Annna Reskova
- 1929 · The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
- 1928 · Soft Living as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
- 1928 · Sailors' Wives as Careth Lindsey
- 1927 · Slaves of Beauty as Anastasia Jones
- 1926 · Summer Bachelors as Mrs. Preston Smith
- 1926 · The Prince of Tempters as Duchess of Chatsfield
- 1925 · Womanhandled as Lucy Chatham
- 1920 · Wings of Pride as Olive Muir
- 1920 · A Woman's Business as Barbara
- 1920 · Love Without Question as Katherine
- 1919 · The Trap as The Schoolteacher Heroine
- 1918 · Secret Strings as Janet Newell
- 1917 · National Red Cross Pageant as Louvain - Flemish episode
- 1917 · The Unforseen as Margaret Fielding
- 1917 · The Silent Master as Miss Virginia Arlen