Olive Tell

Olive Tell

1894-09-27 – 1951-06-06 (age 56) New York City, New York, USA
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Biography

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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.

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Known For

Brilliant Marriage
Brilliant Marriage

1936

as Mrs. Jane Taylor

The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress

1934

as Princess Johanna Elizabeth

The Right of Way
The Right of Way

1930

as Kathleen

To Hell with the Kaiser!
To Hell with the Kaiser!

1918

as Alice Monroe

Baby Take a Bow
Baby Take a Bow

1934

as Mrs. Carson

Shanghai
Shanghai

1935

as Mrs. Hilton

The Witching Hour
The Witching Hour

1934

as Mrs. Helen Thorne

Yours for the Asking
Yours for the Asking

1936

as Society Woman (uncredited)

Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance

1931

as Mrs. Carlton

Clothes
Clothes

1920

as Olivia Sherwood

Woman Hungry
Woman Hungry

1931

as Betty Temple

National Red Cross Pageant
National Red Cross Pageant

1917

as Louvain - Flemish episode

Ladies' Man
Ladies' Man

1931

as Mrs. Fendley

Hearts in Exile
Hearts in Exile

1929

as Annna Reskova

The Trial of Mary Dugan
The Trial of Mary Dugan

1929

as Mrs. Gertrude Rice

The Unforseen
The Unforseen

1917

as Margaret Fielding

Four Hours to Kill!
Four Hours to Kill!

1935

as Mrs. Madison

Cock o' the Walk
Cock o' the Walk

1930

as Rosa Vallejo

The Trap
The Trap

1919

as The Schoolteacher Heroine

The Prince of Tempters
The Prince of Tempters

1926

as Duchess of Chatsfield