Olive Tell

Known For

Acting

Born

Sep 27, 1894

Died

Jun 06, 1951

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Credits

40 titles

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

Filmography

1937

Under Southern Stars

Mrs. Jackson

Movie
1936

Polo Joe

Mrs. Hilton

Movie
1936

Yours for the Asking

Society Woman (uncredited)

Movie
1936

Brilliant Marriage

Mrs. Jane Taylor

Movie
1935

Shanghai

Mrs. Hilton

Movie
1935

Four Hours to Kill!

Mrs. Madison

Movie
1934

Baby Take a Bow

Mrs. Carson

Movie
1934

The Scarlet Empress

Princess Johanna Elizabeth

Movie
1934

The Witching Hour

Mrs. Helen Thorne

Movie
1933

Strictly Personal

Mrs. Laura Castleton

Movie
1932

False Faces

Mrs. Day

Movie
1931

Delicious

Mrs. Van Bergh

Movie
1931

Devotion

Mrs. Trent

Movie
1931

Ladies' Man

Mrs. Fendley

Movie
1931

Woman Hungry

Betty Temple

Movie
1931

Ten Cents a Dance

Mrs. Carlton

Movie
1930

The Right of Way

Kathleen

Movie
1930

Lawful Larceny

Vivan Hepburn

Movie
1930

Cock o' the Walk

Rosa Vallejo

Movie
1929

The Very Idea

Marion Green

Movie
1929

Hearts in Exile

Annna Reskova

Movie
1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Mrs. Gertrude Rice

Movie
1928

Soft Living

Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen

Movie
1928

Sailors' Wives

Careth Lindsey

Movie
1927

Slaves of Beauty

Anastasia Jones

Movie
1926

Summer Bachelors

Mrs. Preston Smith

Movie
1926

The Prince of Tempters

Duchess of Chatsfield

Movie
1925

Womanhandled

Lucy Chatham

Movie
1925

Chickie

Ila Moore

Movie
1921

Worlds Apart

Elinor Ashe

Movie
1920

Clothes

Olivia Sherwood

Movie
1920

Wings of Pride

Olive Muir

Movie
1920

A Woman's Business

Barbara

Movie
1920

Love Without Question

Katherine

Movie
1919

The Trap

The Schoolteacher Heroine

Movie
1918

Secret Strings

Janet Newell

Movie
1918

To Hell with the Kaiser!

Alice Monroe

Movie
1917

National Red Cross Pageant

Louvain - Flemish episode

Movie
1917

The Unforseen

Margaret Fielding

Movie
1917

The Silent Master

Miss Virginia Arlen

Movie