
Olive Thomas
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1894-10-20
Day of Death
1920-09-10 (25 years old)
Place of Birth
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Olive Thomas
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.
Known For
Acting
(2010)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(2003)
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Self (archive footage)
(1920)
The Flapper
as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
(1920)
Darling Mine
as Kitty McCarthy
(1920)
Youthful Folly
as Nancy Sherwin
(1920)
Footlights and Shadows
as Gloria Dawn
(1920)
Everybody's Sweetheart
as Mary
(1919)
The Follies Girl
as Doll
(1919)
Toton
as Toton/ Yvonne
(1919)
The Spite Bride
as Tessa Doyle
(1919)
The Glorious Lady
as Ivis Benson
(1919)
Out Yonder
as Flotsam
(1919)
Upstairs and Down
as Alice Chesterton
(1919)
Prudence on Broadway
as Prudence
(1919)
Love's Prisoner
as Nancy, later Lady Clevela
(1918)
Limousine Life
as Minnie Wells
(1918)
Betty Takes a Hand
as Betty Marshall
(1918)
Heiress For a Day
as Helen Thurston
(1917)
Tom Sawyer
as Choir Member (Uncredited)
(1917)
An Even Break
as Claire Curtis
(1917)
A Girl Like That
as Fannie Brooks
(1917)
Madcap Madge
as Madge Flower
(1917)
Broadway Arizona
as Fritzi Carlyle
(1917)
Indiscreet Corinne
as Corinne Chilvers
(1916)
Beatrice Fairfax
as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Crew
(1920)
Youthful Folly
Writer