Olive Thomas

Known for ActingBorn 1894-10-20Died 1920-09-10Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA

Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy;[1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model. Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The Midnight Frolic. In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in more than 20 features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of fellow silent-film star Mary Pickford. On September 10, 1920, Thomas died in Paris five days after ingesting her husband's syphilis medication, mercury dichloride, that brought on acute nephritis. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the early scandals in Hollywood that was heavily publicized.Read more

Movies & web series

Prudence on Broadway

The Spite Bride

The Follies Girl

Toton

Sigrid Holmquist

Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Everybody's Sweetheart

The Glorious Lady

Upstairs and Down

Betty Takes a Hand

An Even Break

Out Yonder

The Flapper

Madcap Madge

Broadway Arizona

Love's Prisoner

Tom Sawyer

Beatrice Fairfax

Darling Mine

Youthful Folly

Footlights and Shadows

Limousine Life

Heiress For a Day

Indiscreet Corinne

A Girl Like That