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Olive Tell

Actor
Died June 6, 1951 (56 years)
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.
Known For
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • Ten Cents a Dance
  • Baby, Take a Bow
  • Delicious
  • The Right of Way
  • Womanhandled
  • Brilliant Marriage

Filmography

1938
Zaza · as Jeanne Liseron
1936
Polo Joe · as Mrs. Hilton
1936
Easy to Take · as Announcer
1936
Yours for the Asking · as Society Woman
1936
Brilliant Marriage · as Mrs. Jane Taylor
1935
Shanghai · as Mrs. Hilton
1935
Four Hours to Kill! · as Mrs. Madison
1934
The Scarlet Empress · as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
1934
Baby, Take a Bow · as Mrs. Carson
1934
The Witching Hour · as Mrs. Helen Thorne
1933
Strictly Personal · as Mrs. Laura Castleton
1932
False Faces · as Mrs. Day
1931
Delicious · as Mrs. Van Bergh
1931
Devotion · as Mrs. Trent
1931
Ladies' Man · as Mrs. Fendley
1931
Ten Cents a Dance · as Mrs. Carlton
1930
The Right of Way · as Kathleen
1930
Lawful Larceny · as Vivan Hepburn
1929
The Very Idea · as Marion Green
1929
Hearts in Exile · as Annna Reskova
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan · as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
1925
Womanhandled · as Lucy Chatham

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