Olive Tell
Actor
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.
Filmography
Baby Take a Bow
as Mrs. Carson 1934
Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Carlton 1931
Ladies' Man
as Mrs. Fendley 1931
Four Hours to Kill!
as Mrs. Madison 1935
The Right of Way
as Kathleen 1930
Devotion
as Mrs. Trent 1931
Cock o' the Walk
as Rosa Vallejo 1930
False Faces
as Mrs. Day 1932
The Witching Hour
as Mrs. Helen Thorne 1934
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice 1929
The Very Idea
as Marion Green 1929
Lawful Larceny
as Vivan Hepburn 1930
Delicious
as Mrs. Van Bergh 1931
Summer Bachelors
as Mrs. Preston Smith 1926
Brilliant Marriage
as Mrs. Jane Taylor 1936
Shanghai
as Mrs. Hilton 1935