Olive Tell
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 · 38
Brilliant Marriage
1936 · Mrs. Jane Taylor
Ten Cents a Dance
1931 · Mrs. Carlton
The Scarlet Empress
1934 · Princess Johanna Eliza...
To Hell with the Kaiser!
1918 · Alice Monroe
The Trap
1919 · The Schoolteacher Hero...
Clothes
1920 · Olivia Sherwood
National Red Cross Pageant
1917 · Louvain - Flemish epis...
Yours for the Asking
1936 · Society Woman (uncredi...
Strictly Personal
1933 · Mrs. Laura Castleton
Polo Joe
1936 · Mrs. Hilton
Cock o' the Walk
1930 · Rosa Vallejo
Chickie
1925 · Ila Moore
Love Without Question
1920 · Katherine
Shanghai
1935 · Mrs. Hilton
Summer Bachelors
1926 · Mrs. Preston Smith
Devotion
1931 · Mrs. Trent
Soft Living
1928 · Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
The Right of Way
1930 · Kathleen
Hearts in Exile
1929 · Annna Reskova
Baby Take a Bow
1934 · Mrs. Carson
Woman Hungry
1931 · Betty Temple
Womanhandled
1925 · Lucy Chatham
The Witching Hour
1934 · Mrs. Helen Thorne
Ladies' Man
1931 · Mrs. Fendley
A Woman's Business
1920 · Barbara
The Prince of Tempters
1926 · Duchess of Chatsfield
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Mrs. Madison
Sailors' Wives
1928 · Careth Lindsey
Lawful Larceny
1930 · Vivan Hepburn
The Unforseen
1917 · Margaret Fielding
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929 · Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Delicious
1931 · Mrs. Van Bergh
The Very Idea
1929 · Marion Green
Worlds Apart
1921 · Elinor Ashe
False Faces
1932 · Mrs. Day
The Silent Master
1917 · Miss Virginia Arlen
Wings of Pride
1920 · Olive Muir
Secret Strings
1918 · Janet Newell