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Home/People/Olive Tell
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Born
Sep 27, 1894Died: Jun 6, 1951
Lived 56 years
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

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IMDb Profile

Olive Tell

Acting

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.
Under Southern Stars poster

Under Southern Stars

as Mrs. Jackson
1937
Polo Joe poster

Polo Joe

as Mrs. Hilton
1936
Yours for the Asking poster

Yours for the Asking

as Society Woman (uncredited)
1936
Brilliant Marriage poster

Brilliant Marriage

as Mrs. Jane Taylor
1936
Shanghai poster

Shanghai

as Mrs. Hilton
1935
Four Hours to Kill! poster

Four Hours to Kill!

as Mrs. Madison
1935
Baby Take a Bow poster

Baby Take a Bow

as Mrs. Carson
1934
The Scarlet Empress poster

The Scarlet Empress

as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
1934
The Witching Hour poster

The Witching Hour

as Mrs. Helen Thorne
1934
Strictly Personal poster

Strictly Personal

as Mrs. Laura Castleton
1933
False Faces poster

False Faces

as Mrs. Day
1932
Delicious poster

Delicious

as Mrs. Van Bergh
1931
Devotion poster

Devotion

as Mrs. Trent
1931
Ladies' Man poster

Ladies' Man

as Mrs. Fendley
1931
Woman Hungry poster

Woman Hungry

as Betty Temple
1931
Ten Cents a Dance poster

Ten Cents a Dance

as Mrs. Carlton
1931
The Right of Way poster

The Right of Way

as Kathleen
1930
Lawful Larceny poster

Lawful Larceny

as Vivan Hepburn
1930
Cock o' the Walk poster

Cock o' the Walk

as Rosa Vallejo
1930
The Very Idea poster

The Very Idea

as Marion Green
1929