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