Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1894-09-27
Day of Death
1951-06-06
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Olive Tell
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 (40)
Under Southern Stars
1937
Polo Joe
1936
Yours for the Asking
1936
Brilliant Marriage
1936
Shanghai
1935
Four Hours to Kill!
1935
Baby Take a Bow
1934
The Scarlet Empress
1934
The Witching Hour
1934
Strictly Personal
1933
False Faces
1932
Delicious
1931
Devotion
1931
Ladies' Man
1931
