
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.
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Brilliant Marriage
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
1936

Chickie
as Ila Moore
1925

The Trap
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
1919

Clothes
as Olivia Sherwood
1920

The Scarlet Empress
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
1934

Baby Take a Bow
as Mrs. Carson
1934

Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Carlton
1931

Ladies' Man
as Mrs. Fendley
1931

Woman Hungry
as Betty Temple
1931

False Faces
as Mrs. Day
1932

Shanghai
as Mrs. Hilton
1935

The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
1929