Olive Tell
Born: 1894-09-27 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1951-06-06
Known For: Acting
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
1937
- Under Southern Stars as Mrs. Jackson
1936
- Yours for the Asking as Society Woman (uncredited)
- Brilliant Marriage as Mrs. Jane Taylor
- Polo Joe as Mrs. Hilton
1935
- Shanghai as Mrs. Hilton
- Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Madison
1934
- The Scarlet Empress as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
- Baby Take a Bow as Mrs. Carson
- The Witching Hour as Mrs. Helen Thorne
1933
- Strictly Personal as Mrs. Laura Castleton
1932
- False Faces as Mrs. Day
1931
- Woman Hungry as Betty Temple
- Ladies' Man as Mrs. Fendley
- Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Carlton
- Delicious as Mrs. Van Bergh
- Devotion as Mrs. Trent
1930
- The Right of Way as Kathleen
- Lawful Larceny as Vivan Hepburn
- Cock o' the Walk as Rosa Vallejo
1929
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
- The Very Idea as Marion Green
- Hearts in Exile as Annna Reskova
1928
- Soft Living as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
- Sailors' Wives as Careth Lindsey
1927
- Slaves of Beauty as Anastasia Jones
1926
- The Prince of Tempters as Duchess of Chatsfield
- Summer Bachelors as Mrs. Preston Smith
1925
- Womanhandled as Lucy Chatham
- Chickie as Ila Moore
1921
- Worlds Apart as Elinor Ashe
1920
- Love Without Question as Katherine
- Clothes as Olivia Sherwood
- A Woman's Business as Barbara
- Wings of Pride as Olive Muir
1919
- The Trap as The Schoolteacher Heroine
1918
- Secret Strings as Janet Newell
- To Hell with the Kaiser! as Alice Monroe
1917
- National Red Cross Pageant as Louvain - Flemish episode
- The Silent Master as Miss Virginia Arlen
- The Unforseen as Margaret Fielding