Olive Tell
Olive Tell
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.
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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
38
Gender
Female
Birthday
1894-09-27 (131 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Acting

1937

Under Southern Stars as Mrs. Jackson

1936

Polo Joe as Mrs. Hilton

1936

Brilliant Marriage as Mrs. Jane Taylor

1936

Yours for the Asking as Society Woman (uncredited)

1935

Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Madison

1935

Shanghai as Mrs. Hilton

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

Devotion as Mrs. Trent

1931

Woman Hungry as Betty Temple

1931

Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Carlton

1931

Ladies' Man as Mrs. Fendley

1931

Delicious as Mrs. Van Bergh

1930

The Right of Way as Kathleen

1930

Lawful Larceny as Vivan Hepburn

1930

Cock o' the Walk as Rosa Vallejo

1929

Hearts in Exile as Annna Reskova

1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mrs. Gertrude Rice

1929

The Very Idea as Marion Green

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

1921

Worlds Apart as Elinor Ashe

1920

Love Without Question as Katherine

1920

Wings of Pride as Olive Muir

1920

A Woman's Business as Barbara

1920

Clothes as Olivia Sherwood

1919

The Trap as The Schoolteacher Heroine

1918

Secret Strings as Janet Newell

1917

The Silent Master as Miss Virginia Arlen

1917

The Unforseen as Margaret Fielding

1917

National Red Cross Pageant as Louvain - Flemish episode