Olive Tell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 27, 1894
- Died
- June 6, 1951
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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
Under Southern Stars 1937
as Mrs. Jackson
Polo Joe 1936
as Mrs. Hilton
Yours for the Asking 1936
as Society Woman (uncredited)
Brilliant Marriage 1936
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
Shanghai 1935
as Mrs. Hilton
Four Hours to Kill! 1935
as Mrs. Madison
Baby Take a Bow 1934
as Mrs. Carson
The Scarlet Empress 1934
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
The Witching Hour 1934
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
Strictly Personal 1933
as Mrs. Laura Castleton
False Faces 1932
as Mrs. Day
Delicious 1931
as Mrs. Van Bergh
Devotion 1931
as Mrs. Trent
Ladies' Man 1931
as Mrs. Fendley
Woman Hungry 1931
as Betty Temple
Ten Cents a Dance 1931
as Mrs. Carlton
The Right of Way 1930
as Kathleen
Lawful Larceny 1930
as Vivan Hepburn
Cock o' the Walk 1930
as Rosa Vallejo
The Very Idea 1929
as Marion Green
Hearts in Exile 1929
as Annna Reskova
The Trial of Mary Dugan 1929
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Soft Living 1928
as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
Sailors' Wives 1928
as Careth Lindsey
- Slaves of Beauty
Slaves of Beauty 1927
as Anastasia Jones
Summer Bachelors 1926
as Mrs. Preston Smith
The Prince of Tempters 1926
as Duchess of Chatsfield
Womanhandled 1925
as Lucy Chatham
Chickie 1925
as Ila Moore
Worlds Apart 1921
as Elinor Ashe
Clothes 1920
as Olivia Sherwood
Wings of Pride 1920
as Olive Muir
A Woman's Business 1920
as Barbara
Love Without Question 1920
as Katherine
The Trap 1919
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
Secret Strings 1918
as Janet Newell
To Hell with the Kaiser! 1918
as Alice Monroe
National Red Cross Pageant 1917
as Louvain - Flemish episode
The Unforseen 1917
as Margaret Fielding
The Silent Master 1917
as Miss Virginia Arlen
Credits from TMDB.