Olive Tell
Acting
Born 1894-09-27
Died 1951-06-06
New York City, New York, USA
40 credits
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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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Filmography
The Scarlet Empress
The Trap
Baby Take a Bow
Brilliant Marriage
Clothes
Chickie
Ten Cents a Dance
Love Without Question
Yours for the Asking
National Red Cross Pageant
The Witching Hour
Strictly Personal
Shanghai
Lawful Larceny
Devotion
To Hell with the Kaiser!
Polo Joe
Ladies' Man
Cock o' the Walk
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Summer Bachelors
Under Southern Stars
The Right of Way
Soft Living
Hearts in Exile
False Faces
Woman Hungry
Sailors' Wives
Four Hours to Kill!
Slaves of Beauty
The Prince of Tempters
Womanhandled
A Woman's Business
Delicious
Secret Strings
The Very Idea
The Silent Master
Wings of Pride
Worlds Apart
The Unforseen
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