Olive Thomas
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy;[1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.
Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The Midnight Frolic. In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in more than 20 features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of fellow silent-film star Mary Pickford.
On September 10, 1920, Thomas died in Paris five days after ingesting her husband's syphilis medication, mercury dichloride, that brought on acute nephritis. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the early scandals in Hollywood that was heavily publicized.
Acting
Movie
The Flapper
as Genevieve 'Ginger' King
1920
Movie
Tom Sawyer
as Choir Member (Uncredited)
1917
Movie
Love's Prisoner
as Nancy, later Lady Clevela
1919
Movie
Out Yonder
as Flotsam
1919
Movie
The Glorious Lady
as Ivis Benson
1919
Movie
Everybody's Sweetheart
as Mary
1920
Movie
Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Movie
Beatrice Fairfax
as Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
1916
Movie
Upstairs and Down
as Alice Chesterton
1919
Movie
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
Movie
The Spite Bride
as Tessa Doyle
1919
Movie
An Even Break
as Claire Curtis
1917
Movie
Broadway Arizona
as Fritzi Carlyle
1917
Movie
The Follies Girl
as Doll
1919
Movie
Madcap Madge
as Madge Flower
1917
Movie
Betty Takes a Hand
as Betty Marshall
1918
Movie
Toton
as Toton/ Yvonne
1919
Movie
Prudence on Broadway
as Prudence
1919
Movie
Indiscreet Corinne
as Corinne Chilvers
1917
Movie
A Girl Like That
as Fannie Brooks
1917
Movie
Limousine Life
as Minnie Wells
1918
Movie
Heiress For a Day
as Helen Thurston
1918
Movie
Youthful Folly
as Nancy Sherwin
1920
Movie
Footlights and Shadows
as Gloria Dawn
1920