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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.
Born
Thursday, 27 September 1894
Died
Wednesday, 06 June 1951
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Zaza | Jeanne Liseron | 1939 |
Under Southern Stars | Mrs. Jackson | 1937 |
Easy to Take | Announcer | 1936 |
Polo Joe | Mrs. Hilton | 1936 |
In His Steps | Elaine Brewster | 1936 |
Yours for the Asking | Society Woman | 1936 |
Brilliant Marriage | Mrs. Jane Taylor / Jane Taylor | 1936 |
Shanghai | Mrs. Hilton | 1935 |
Four Hours to Kill! | Mrs. Madison | 1935 |
The Scarlet Empress | Princess Johanna Elizabeth | 1934 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
---|
Zaza | Jeanne Liseron | 1939 |
Under Southern Stars | Mrs. Jackson | 1937 |
Easy to Take | Announcer | 1936 |
Polo Joe | Mrs. Hilton | 1936 |
In His Steps | Elaine Brewster | 1936 |
Yours for the Asking | Society Woman | 1936 |
Brilliant Marriage | Mrs. Jane Taylor / Jane Taylor | 1936 |
Shanghai | Mrs. Hilton | 1935 |
Four Hours to Kill! | Mrs. Madison | 1935 |
The Scarlet Empress | Princess Johanna Elizabeth | 1934 |
Baby, Take a Bow | Mrs. Carson | 1934 |
Private Scandal | Deborah Lane | 1934 |
The Witching Hour | Mrs. Helen Thorne | 1934 |
Strictly Personal | Mrs. Castleton / Mrs. Laura Castleton | 1933 |
False Faces | Mrs. Day | 1932 |
Delicious | Mrs. Van Bergh | 1931 |
Devotion | Mrs. Trent | 1931 |
Ladies' Man | Mrs. Fendley | 1931 |
Woman Hungry | Betty Temple | 1931 |
Ten Cents a Dance | Mrs. Carlton | 1931 |
The Right of Way | Kathleen | 1931 |
Lawful Larceny | Vivan Hepburn | 1930 |
Cock o' the Walk | Rosa Vallejo | 1930 |
The Very Idea | Marion Green | 1929 |
The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mrs. Gertrude Rice | 1929 |
Soft Living | Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen | 1928 |
Sailors' Wives | Careth Lindsey | 1928 |
Slaves of Beauty | Anastasia Jones | 1927 |
Summer Bachelors | Mrs. Preston Smith | 1926 |
The Prince of Tempters | Duchess of Chatsfield | 1926 |
Worlds Apart | Elinor Ashe | 1926 |
Womanhandled | Lucy Chatham | 1925 |
Chickie | Ila Moore | 1925 |
Wings of Pride | Olive Muir | 1920 |
A Woman's Business | Barbara | 1920 |
The Wrong Woman | Viola Sherwin | 1920 |
Secret Strings | Janet Newell | 1918 |
To Hell with the Kaiser! | Alice Monroe | 1918 |
The Girl and the Judge | Winifred Stanton | 1918 |
Her Sister | Eleanor Alderson | 1917 |
National Red Cross Pageant | Louvain - Flemish episode | 1917 |
The Unforseen | Margaret Fielding | 1917 |
The Silent Master | Miss Virginia Arlen | 1917 |