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Olive Tell

Olive Tell

Birthday: 1894-09-27 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1937
Under Southern Stars

as    Mrs. Jackson

1935
Shanghai

as    Mrs. Hilton

1934
Baby Take a Bow

as    Mrs. Carson

1934
The Witching Hour

as    Mrs. Helen Thorne

1934
The Scarlet Empress

as    Princess Johanna Elizabeth

1931
Devotion

as    Mrs. Trent

1930
The Right of Way

as    Kathleen

1930
Cock o' the Walk

as    Rosa Vallejo

1917
The Silent Master

as    Miss Virginia Arlen