Olive Tell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

38

Gender

Female

Birthday

1894-09-27

Deathday

1951-06-06 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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.

Known For

The Scarlet Empress
6.9%

The Scarlet Empress

May 9, 1934

Baby Take a Bow
5.6%

Baby Take a Bow

Jun 30, 1934

Ten Cents a Dance
6.8%

Ten Cents a Dance

Jan 30, 1931

Ladies' Man
4.3%

Ladies' Man

Apr 16, 1931

Four Hours to Kill!
5.0%

Four Hours to Kill!

Apr 11, 1935

Devotion
6.8%

Devotion

Sep 25, 1931

The Right of Way
5.2%

The Right of Way

Dec 11, 1930

The Witching Hour
5.3%

The Witching Hour

Apr 26, 1934

Cock o' the Walk
3.2%

Cock o' the Walk

Apr 13, 1930

False Faces
4.3%

False Faces

Oct 12, 1932

Lawful Larceny
5.7%

Lawful Larceny

Aug 17, 1930

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Acting

1937
Under Southern Stars as Mrs. Jackson
1936
Polo Joe as Mrs. Hilton
1936
Yours for the Asking as Society Woman (uncredited)
1936
Brilliant Marriage as Mrs. Jane Taylor
1935
Shanghai as Mrs. Hilton
1935
Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Madison
1934
Baby Take a Bow as Mrs. Carson
1934
The Scarlet Empress as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
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
Woman Hungry as Betty Temple
1931
Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Carlton
1930
The Right of Way as Kathleen
1930
Lawful Larceny as Vivan Hepburn
1930
Cock o' the Walk as Rosa Vallejo
1929
The Very Idea as Marion Green
1929
Hearts in Exile as Annna Reskova
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
1928
Soft Living as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
1928
Sailors' Wives as Careth Lindsey
1927
Slaves of Beauty as Anastasia Jones
1926
Summer Bachelors as Mrs. Preston Smith
1926
The Prince of Tempters as Duchess of Chatsfield
1925
Womanhandled as Lucy Chatham
1921
Worlds Apart as Elinor Ashe
1920
Clothes as Olivia Sherwood
1920
Wings of Pride as Olive Muir
1920
A Woman's Business as Barbara
1920
Love Without Question as Katherine
1919
The Trap as The Schoolteacher Heroine
1918
Secret Strings as Janet Newell
1917
National Red Cross Pageant as Louvain - Flemish episode
1917
The Unforseen as Margaret Fielding
1917
The Silent Master as Miss Virginia Arlen
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