Olive Tell

Olive Tell

Born: September 27, 1894
Died: June 6, 1951
in New York City, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Olive Tell...

Under Southern Stars
Title: Under Southern Stars
Character: Mrs. Jackson
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
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Polo Joe
Title: Polo Joe
Character: Mrs. Hilton
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Brilliant Marriage
Title: Brilliant Marriage
Character: Mrs. Jane Taylor
Released: March 25, 1936
Type: Movie
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
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Shanghai
Title: Shanghai
Character: Mrs. Hilton
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Mrs. Madison
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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Baby Take a Bow
Title: Baby Take a Bow
Character: Mrs. Carson
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Character: Princess Johanna Elizabeth
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour
Character: Mrs. Helen Thorne
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Mrs. Laura Castleton
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Mrs. Day
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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Delicious
Title: Delicious
Character: Mrs. Van Bergh
Released: December 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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Devotion
Title: Devotion
Character: Mrs. Trent
Released: September 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
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Ladies' Man
Title: Ladies' Man
Character: Mrs. Fendley
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
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Woman Hungry
Title: Woman Hungry
Character: Betty Temple
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Mrs. Carlton
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Kathleen
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
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Lawful Larceny
Title: Lawful Larceny
Character: Vivan Hepburn
Released: August 17, 1930
Type: Movie
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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Cock o' the Walk
Title: Cock o' the Walk
Character: Rosa Vallejo
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
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The Very Idea
Title: The Very Idea
Character: Marion Green
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.
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Hearts in Exile
Title: Hearts in Exile
Character: Annna Reskova
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Mrs. Gertrude Rice
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
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Soft Living
Title: Soft Living
Character: Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
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Sailors' Wives
Title: Sailors' Wives
Character: Careth Lindsey
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
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Slaves of Beauty
Title: Slaves of Beauty
Character: Anastasia Jones
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
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Summer Bachelors
Title: Summer Bachelors
Character: Mrs. Preston Smith
Released: December 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
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The Prince of Tempters
Title: The Prince of Tempters
Character: Duchess of Chatsfield
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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Womanhandled
Title: Womanhandled
Character: Lucy Chatham
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
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Wings of Pride
Title: Wings of Pride
Character: Olive Muir
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father comes to visit the Muir home, Olive learns to her horror that she is adopted and that Prentice is her real father.
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A Woman's Business
Title: A Woman's Business
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Love Without Question
Title: Love Without Question
Character: Katherine
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: The Schoolteacher Heroine
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.
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Secret Strings
Title: Secret Strings
Character: Janet Newell
Released: October 7, 1918
Type: Movie
In this detective picture, Janet marries Raoul Newell but leaves him when she finds out he is a thief. However, when he comes to her and asks her to help retrieve some papers stolen from him by Mr. and Mrs. Giles, she agrees and goes to work for the couple as a maid. But in reality, Raoul is after the couple's jewels.
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National Red Cross Pageant
Title: National Red Cross Pageant
Character: Louvain - Flemish episode
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
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The Unforseen
Title: The Unforseen
Character: Margaret Fielding
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell.....
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The Silent Master
Title: The Silent Master
Character: Miss Virginia Arlen
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Crime and Drama silent movie