Olive Tell

Known for ActingBorn 1894-09-27Died 1951-06-06New 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Woman Hungry

Love Without Question

The Trap

The Unforseen

Hearts in Exile

Soft Living

The Prince of Tempters

Clothes

Sailors' Wives

National Red Cross Pageant

Strictly Personal

Shanghai

Devotion

Under Southern Stars

Polo Joe

Slaves of Beauty

Womanhandled

Chickie

The Scarlet Empress

Worlds Apart

Wings of Pride

A Woman's Business

Ten Cents a Dance

The Witching Hour

Delicious

Lawful Larceny

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Brilliant Marriage

The Very Idea

Four Hours to Kill!

Baby Take a Bow

Yours for the Asking

The Right of Way

The Silent Master

Ladies' Man

False Faces

Summer Bachelors

Cock o' the Walk

Secret Strings

To Hell with the Kaiser!