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 Sidney Olcott directed comedy 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), 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.
Movie | Under Southern Stars | Mrs. Jackson | 1937-02-20 |
Movie | Brilliant Marriage | Mrs. Jane Taylor | 1936-03-25 |
Movie | Polo Joe | Mrs. Hilton | 1936-11-04 |
Movie | Four Hours to Kill! | Mrs. Madison | 1935-04-11 |
Movie | Shanghai | Mrs. Hilton | 1935-07-19 |
Movie | The Scarlet Empress | Princess Johanna Elizabeth | 1934-05-09 |
Movie | The Witching Hour | Mrs. Helen Thorne | 1934-04-26 |
Movie | Baby Take a Bow | Mrs. Carson | 1934-06-30 |
Movie | Strictly Personal | Mrs. Laura Castleton | 1933-03-17 |
Movie | False Faces | Mrs. Day | 1932-10-12 |
Movie | Ten Cents a Dance | Mrs. Carlton | 1931-01-30 |
Movie | Ladies' Man | Mrs. Fendley | 1931-04-16 |
Movie | Delicious | Mrs. Van Bergh | 1931-12-27 |
Movie | Devotion | Mrs. Trent | 1931-09-25 |
Movie | Cock o' the Walk | Rosa Vallejo | 1930-04-13 |
Movie | Lawful Larceny | Vivan Hepburn | 1930-08-17 |
Movie | The Right of Way | Kathleen | 1930-12-11 |
Movie | Hearts in Exile | Annna Reskova | 1929-09-14 |
Movie | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mrs. Gertrude Rice | 1929-06-08 |
Movie | The Very Idea | Marion Green | 1929-09-15 |
Movie | Sailors' Wives | Careth Lindsey | 1928-01-22 |
Movie | Slaves of Beauty | Anastasia Jones | 1927-06-05 |
Movie | The Prince of Tempters | Duchess of Chatsfield | 1926-10-17 |
Movie | Womanhandled | Lucy Chatham | 1925-12-27 |
Movie | Love Without Question | Katherine | 1920-03-01 |
Movie | A Woman's Business | Barbara | 1920-06-01 |
Movie | Wings of Pride | Olive Muir | 1920-08-01 |
Movie | The Trap | The Schoolteacher Heroine | 1919-08-10 |
Movie | Secret Strings | Janet Newell | 1918-10-07 |
Movie | The Silent Master | Miss Virginia Arlen | 1917-06-01 |
Movie | National Red Cross Pageant | Louvain - Flemish episode | 1917-12-01 |
Movie | The Unforseen | Margaret Fielding | 1917-10-21 |