Olive Thomas
Known For
Acting
Born
1894-10-20 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
1920-09-10
Biography
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.
Most Known For
The Flapper
as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
Tom Sawyer
as Choir Member (Uncredited)
Everybody's Sweetheart
as Mary
Love's Prisoner
as Nancy, later Lady Clevela
The Follies Girl
as Doll
The Glorious Lady
as Ivis Benson
A Girl Like That
as Fannie Brooks
Toton
as Toton/ Yvonne
Darling Mine
as Kitty McCarthy
Youthful Folly
as Nancy Sherwin
Broadway Arizona
as Fritzi Carlyle
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Prudence on Broadway
as Prudence
Madcap Madge
as Madge Flower
Beatrice Fairfax
as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Betty Takes a Hand
as Betty Marshall
Indiscreet Corinne
as Corinne Chilvers
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Self (archive footage)
The Spite Bride
as Tessa Doyle
Upstairs and Down
as Alice Chesterton