Alma Tell

Alma Tell

1898-03-27 – 1937-12-29 (age 39) New York City, New York, USA
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Biography

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Alma Tell (March 27, 1898 - December 29, 1937) was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s. She began her career as an actress on the stages of New York before making her screen debut in the Edward JosΓ©-directed drama Simon, the Jester, released in September 1915. Tell was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the 1920s, she appeared opposite such leading silent film actresses as Mae Murray, Corinne Griffith and Madge Kennedy and would achieve leading lady status in 1923's J. Gordon Edwards-directed film The Silent Command, opposite actors Edmund Lowe, Martha Mansfield and BΓ©la Lugosi. She made her last film appearance in the 1934 John M. Stahl-directed romantic-drama Imitation of Life, which starred Claudette Colbert. Tell died in 1937.

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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life

1934

as Mrs. Craven (uncredited)

Nearly Married
Nearly Married

1917

as Gertrude Robinson

Broadway Rose
Broadway Rose

1922

as Barbara Royce

Love Comes Along
Love Comes Along

1930

as Carlotta

The Iron Trail
The Iron Trail

1921

as Eliza Appleton

The Right to Love
The Right to Love

1920

as Lady Edith

Saturday's Children
Saturday's Children

1929

as Florrie

Paying the Piper
Paying the Piper

1921

as Marcia Marillo

The Smugglers
The Smugglers

1916

as Mrs. Watts

On with the Dance
On with the Dance

1920

as Lady Tremelyn

San Francisco Nights
The Silent Command
The Silent Command

1923

as Mrs. Richard Decatur