
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.
Filmografi
Brilliant Marriage1936 · Mrs. Jane Taylor
The Trap1919 · The Schoolteacher Heroine
Chickie1925 · Ila Moore
To Hell with the Kaiser!1918 · Alice Monroe
National Red Cross Pageant1917 · Louvain - Flemish episode
Ten Cents a Dance1931 · Mrs. Carlton
Cock o' the Walk1930 · Rosa Vallejo
Clothes1920 · Olivia Sherwood
The Scarlet Empress1934 · Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Baby Take a Bow1934 · Mrs. Carson
Yours for the Asking1936 · Society Woman (uncredited)
Four Hours to Kill!1935 · Mrs. Madison
The Witching Hour1934 · Mrs. Helen Thorne
The Right of Way1930 · Kathleen
The Trial of Mary Dugan1929 · Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Polo Joe1936 · Mrs. Hilton
Secret Strings1918 · Janet Newell
Strictly Personal1933 · Mrs. Laura Castleton
Hearts in Exile1929 · Annna Reskova
A Woman's Business1920 · Barbara
The Prince of Tempters1926 · Duchess of Chatsfield
The Silent Master1917 · Miss Virginia Arlen
Shanghai1935 · Mrs. Hilton
The Very Idea1929 · Marion Green
Earl Schenck
Jere Austin
Clifton Webb
Barbara Stanwyck
Margaret McWade
Tallulah Bankhead
Phyllis Crane
Paul Nicholson
Rod La Rocque
David Newell
Al Hill
Barbara Bedford