Olive Tell
Known For
Acting
Born
1894-09-27 in New York City, New York, USA
Died
1951-06-06
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.
Most Known For
Brilliant Marriage
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
Chickie
as Ila Moore
The Trap
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
Clothes
as Olivia Sherwood
The Scarlet Empress
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Cock o' the Walk
as Rosa Vallejo
Shanghai
as Mrs. Hilton
Baby Take a Bow
as Mrs. Carson
Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Carlton
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Devotion
as Mrs. Trent
Polo Joe
as Mrs. Hilton
Ladies' Man
as Mrs. Fendley
The Witching Hour
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
Delicious
as Mrs. Van Bergh
Yours for the Asking
as Society Woman (uncredited)
National Red Cross Pageant
as Louvain - Flemish episode
Strictly Personal
as Mrs. Laura Castleton
False Faces
as Mrs. Day
Woman Hungry
as Betty Temple