About

Known credits:
37
Birthday:
1894-09-27
Place of birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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Olive Tell

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1937 Under Southern Stars Actor Mrs. Jackson N/A
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1936 Polo Joe Actor Mrs. Hilton N/A
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1936 Brilliant Marriage Actor Mrs. Jane Taylor 59
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1935 Shanghai Actor Mrs. Hilton 59
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1935 Four Hours to Kill! Actor Mrs. Madison 59
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1934 Baby Take a Bow Actor Mrs. Carson 58
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1934 The Scarlet Empress Actor Princess Johanna Elizabeth 60
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1934 The Witching Hour Actor Mrs. Helen Thorne 59
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1933 Strictly Personal Actor Mrs. Laura Castleton 59
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1932 False Faces Actor Mrs. Day 58
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1931 Delicious Actor Mrs. Van Bergh 58
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1931 Devotion Actor Mrs. Trent 59
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1931 Ladies' Man Actor Mrs. Fendley 58
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1931 Woman Hungry Actor Betty Temple N/A
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1931 Ten Cents a Dance Actor Mrs. Carlton 59
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1930 The Right of Way Actor Kathleen 58
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1930 Lawful Larceny Actor Vivan Hepburn 59
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1930 Cock o' the Walk Actor Rosa Vallejo 58
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1929 The Very Idea Actor Marion Green 58
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1929 Hearts in Exile Actor Annna Reskova N/A
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1929 The Trial of Mary Dugan Actor Mrs. Gertrude Rice 59
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1928 Soft Living Actor Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen N/A
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1928 Sailors' Wives Actor Careth Lindsey N/A
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1927 Slaves of Beauty Actor Anastasia Jones N/A
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1926 Summer Bachelors Actor Mrs. Preston Smith 58
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1926 The Prince of Tempters Actor Duchess of Chatsfield N/A
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1925 Womanhandled Actor Lucy Chatham 59
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1921 Worlds Apart Actor Elinor Ashe N/A
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1920 Clothes Actor Olivia Sherwood N/A
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1920 Wings of Pride Actor Olive Muir N/A
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1920 A Woman's Business Actor Barbara N/A
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1920 Love Without Question Actor Katherine N/A
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1919 The Trap Actor The Schoolteacher Heroine N/A
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1918 Secret Strings Actor Janet Newell N/A
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1917 National Red Cross Pageant Actor Louvain - Flemish episode N/A
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1917 The Unforseen Actor Margaret Fielding N/A
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1917 The Silent Master Actor Miss Virginia Arlen 58
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