
Olive Tell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1894-09-27
Day of Death
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
Acting
(1937)
Under Southern Stars
as Mrs. Jackson
(1936)
Yours for the Asking
as Society Woman (uncredited)
(1936)
Polo Joe
as Mrs. Hilton
(1936)
Brilliant Marriage
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
(1935)
Four Hours to Kill!
as Mrs. Madison
(1935)
Shanghai
as Mrs. Hilton
(1934)
The Scarlet Empress
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
(1934)
The Witching Hour
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
(1934)
Baby Take a Bow
as Mrs. Carson
(1933)
Strictly Personal
as Mrs. Laura Castleton
(1932)
False Faces
as Mrs. Day
(1931)
Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Carlton
(1931)
Woman Hungry
as Betty Temple
(1931)
Ladies' Man
as Mrs. Fendley
(1931)
Devotion
as Mrs. Trent
(1931)
Delicious
as Mrs. Van Bergh
(1930)
The Right of Way
as Kathleen
(1930)
Cock o' the Walk
as Rosa Vallejo
(1930)
Lawful Larceny
as Vivan Hepburn
(1929)
Hearts in Exile
as Annna Reskova
(1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
(1929)
The Very Idea
as Marion Green
(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)
Love Without Question
as Katherine
(1920)
A Woman's Business
as Barbara
(1920)
Wings of Pride
as Olive Muir
(1919)
The Trap
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
(1918)
Secret Strings
as Janet Newell
(1917)
The Silent Master
as Miss Virginia Arlen
(1917)
National Red Cross Pageant
as Louvain - Flemish episode
(1917)
The Unforseen
as Margaret Fielding