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.

Filmography

Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Louvain - Flemish episode
Janet Newell
Careth Lindsey
Mrs. Trent
Mrs. Preston Smith
Mrs. Helen Thorne
Mrs. Hilton
Mrs. Fendley
Rosa Vallejo
Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
Mrs. Day
Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Marion Green
Mrs. Carlton
Mrs. Jane Taylor
The Schoolteacher Heroine
Mrs. Hilton
Anastasia Jones
Margaret Fielding
Miss Virginia Arlen
Olive Muir
Vivan Hepburn
Mrs. Laura Castleton
Mrs. Van Bergh
Lucy Chatham
Annna Reskova
Mrs. Carson
Betty Temple
Duchess of Chatsfield
Olivia Sherwood
Elinor Ashe
Society Woman (uncredited)