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Olive Tell

Personal Information

Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Born / DiedSep 27, 1894 (Died at 57)
Zodiac Sign♎Libra
Place of BirthNew York City, New York, USA
Career Span1920 – 1951
Known Credits38 Titles
Official Links
ActingPopularity Score 0.7

Olive Tell

Total Works

38

38 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

6.4 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

Biography

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.

Signature Roles & Milestones

The Scarlet Empress
6.9
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 38 titles featuring Olive Tell

The Scarlet Empress
6.9

as Princess Johanna Elizabeth

Baby Take a Bow
5.7
Baby Take a Bow
1934•movie

as Mrs. Carson

Ten Cents a Dance
6.7
Ten Cents a Dance
1931•movie

as Mrs. Carlton

Ladies' Man
4.6
Ladies' Man
1931•movie

as Mrs. Fendley

Four Hours to Kill!
5.7

as Mrs. Madison

The Right of Way
5.2
The Right of Way
1930•movie

as Kathleen

Devotion
7.2
Devotion
1931•movie

as Mrs. Trent

Cock o' the Walk
3.9
Cock o' the Walk
1930•movie

as Rosa Vallejo

False Faces
4.4
False Faces
1932•movie

as Mrs. Day

The Trial of Mary Dugan
6.4

as Mrs. Gertrude Rice

The Very Idea
5.8
The Very Idea
1929•movie

as Marion Green

Delicious
6.5
Delicious
1931•movie

as Mrs. Van Bergh

The Witching Hour
6.5
The Witching Hour
1934•movie

as Mrs. Helen Thorne

Brilliant Marriage
5.8
Brilliant Marriage
1936•movie

as Mrs. Jane Taylor

Lawful Larceny
6.5
Lawful Larceny
1930•movie

as Vivan Hepburn

Summer Bachelors
4.0
Summer Bachelors
1926•movie

as Mrs. Preston Smith

Shanghai
7.3
Shanghai
1935•movie

as Mrs. Hilton

Womanhandled
7.0
Womanhandled
1925•movie

as Lucy Chatham

Yours for the Asking
5.3

as Society Woman (uncredited)

Strictly Personal
7.5
Strictly Personal
1933•movie

as Mrs. Laura Castleton

National Red Cross Pageant
8.0

as Louvain - Flemish episode

Sailors' Wives
8.0
Sailors' Wives
1928•movie

as Careth Lindsey

Love Without Question
10.0

as Katherine

Polo Joe
7.0
Polo Joe
1936•movie

as Mrs. Hilton

Soft Living
9.0
Soft Living
1928•movie

as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen

The Trap
10.0
The Trap
1919•movie

as The Schoolteacher Heroine

The Unforseen
10.0
The Unforseen
1917•movie

as Margaret Fielding

The Silent Master
5.0
The Silent Master
1917•movie

as Miss Virginia Arlen

Wings of Pride
7.0
Wings of Pride
1920•movie

as Olive Muir

Hearts in Exile
9.0
Hearts in Exile
1929•movie

as Annna Reskova

Woman Hungry
10.0
Woman Hungry
1931•movie

as Betty Temple

The Prince of Tempters
9.0

as Duchess of Chatsfield

A Woman's Business
7.0
A Woman's Business
1920•movie

as Barbara

Clothes
9.0
Clothes
1920•movie

as Olivia Sherwood

Worlds Apart
7.0
Worlds Apart
1921•movie

as Elinor Ashe

Chickie
7.0
Chickie
1925•movie

as Ila Moore

Secret Strings
Secret Strings
1918•movie

as Janet Newell

To Hell with the Kaiser!

as Alice Monroe