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
- Brilliant Marriage as Mrs. Jane Taylor
- Polo Joe as Mrs. Hilton
- Yours for the Asking as Society Woman (uncredited)
1935
- Shanghai as Mrs. Hilton
- Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Madison
1934
- The Scarlet Empress as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
- The Witching Hour as Mrs. Helen Thorne
- Baby Take a Bow as Mrs. Carson
1933
- Strictly Personal as Mrs. Laura Castleton
1932
- False Faces as Mrs. Day
1931
- Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Carlton
- Ladies' Man as Mrs. Fendley
- Delicious as Mrs. Van Bergh
- Woman Hungry as Betty Temple
- Devotion as Mrs. Trent
1930
- Cock o' the Walk as Rosa Vallejo
- The Right of Way as Kathleen
- Lawful Larceny as Vivan Hepburn
1929
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
- Hearts in Exile as Annna Reskova
- The Very Idea as Marion Green
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
- Chickie as Ila Moore
- Womanhandled as Lucy Chatham
1921
- Worlds Apart as Elinor Ashe
1920
- Clothes as Olivia Sherwood
- A Woman's Business as Barbara
- Wings of Pride as Olive Muir
- Love Without Question as Katherine
1919
- The Trap as The Schoolteacher Heroine
1918
- To Hell with the Kaiser! as Alice Monroe
- Secret Strings as Janet Newell
1917
- National Red Cross Pageant as Louvain - Flemish episode
- The Unforseen as Margaret Fielding
- The Silent Master as Miss Virginia Arlen