Olive Tell

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.

Acting

1936

Polo Joe
Movie

Mrs. Hilton

1936

Yours for the Asking
Movie

Society Woman (uncredited)

1935

Shanghai
Movie

Mrs. Hilton

1934

1934

The Scarlet Empress
Movie

Princess Johanna Elizabeth

1931

Delicious
Movie

Mrs. Van Bergh

1931

Devotion
Movie

Mrs. Trent

1931

Ladies' Man
Movie

Mrs. Fendley

1931

1930

1929

The Very Idea
Movie

Marion Green

1929

1929

1928

Sailors' Wives
Movie

Careth Lindsey

1925

Chickie
Movie

Ila Moore

1917

National Red Cross Pageant
Movie

Louvain - Flemish episode

Infos

Full Name
Olive Tell
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
9/27/1894
Date of Death
6/6/1951