Olive Tell

Acting Sep 27, 1894 Jun 6, 1951 (aged 57) New York City, New York, USA

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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.

40 Acting Credits

Olive Tell

Acting

The Scarlet Empress

Baby Take a Bow

Ten Cents a Dance

Ladies' Man

Four Hours to Kill!

The Right of Way

Devotion

Cock o' the Walk

False Faces

The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Very Idea

Delicious

The Witching Hour

Brilliant Marriage

Lawful Larceny

Summer Bachelors

Shanghai

Womanhandled

Yours for the Asking

Strictly Personal

National Red Cross Pageant

Sailors' Wives

Under Southern Stars

Love Without Question