Olive Borden

Olive Borden

Born: July 14, 1906
Died: October 1, 1947
in Richmond - Virginia - USA
Olive Borden was beautiful and talented but she became one of Hollywood's most tragic tales. She came to Hollywood in 1922 with her widowed mother. Olive started her career as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was named a Wampas baby star in 1925. She made eleven films at Fox studios where she earned $1,500 a week. Olive became a popular on screen vamp and her jet black hair was her trademark. She hired Jimmie Fiddler as her agent and was nicknamed "The Joy Girl". Olive lived a lavish lifestyle with limos, mansions, servants, and a dozen fur coats. In 1927 she left Fox after a salary dispute. She later worked for Columbia and RKO studios. Like many other silent stars she had a hard time making the transition to talkies. Her last film was made in 1934. There were two failed marriages and a broken engagement to actor George O'Brien. During World War 2 she worked as a nurse. By the age of 41 she was a penniless alcoholic. Her final years were spent in a Los Angeles mission. Sadly many of Olive Borden's silent films have been lost and this lovely star has been forgotten.

Date of Death 1 October 1947, Los Angeles, California  (stomach ailment)

Movies for Olive Borden...

Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Title: Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Character: Chloe
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.
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The Inventors
Title: The Inventors
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace
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The Mild West
Title: The Mild West
Character: Baby Doll
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
This musical short focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.
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Gobs of Fun
Title: Gobs of Fun
Character: Lulu
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Peavey
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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Hotel Variety
Title: Hotel Variety
Released: January 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....
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The Divorce Racket
Title: The Divorce Racket
Character: Marie Douglas
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Character: Woman
Released: January 10, 1932
Type: Movie
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
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The Social Lion
Title: The Social Lion
Character: Gloria Staunton
Released: June 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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Hello Sister
Title: Hello Sister
Character: Vee Newell
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
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Wedding Rings
Title: Wedding Rings
Character: Eve Quinn
Released: December 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Gracie Nolan
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
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Half Marriage
Title: Half Marriage
Character: Judy Paige
Released: October 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
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The Eternal Woman
Title: The Eternal Woman
Character: Anita
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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Love In The Desert
Title: Love In The Desert
Character: Zarah
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
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Stool Pigeon
Title: Stool Pigeon
Character: Goldie
Released: October 25, 1928
Type: Movie
An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality, he is only stealing to give his mother a better life. His devoted girlfriend Goldie (Olive Borden) tries to help him turn his life around.
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Gang War
Title: Gang War
Character: Flowers
Released: September 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
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Virgin Lips
Title: Virgin Lips
Character: Norma
Released: July 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
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The Albany Night Boat
Title: The Albany Night Boat
Character: Georgie
Released: July 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Steve falls in love with Ken's beautiful wife.
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The Joy Girl
Title: The Joy Girl
Character: Jewel Courage
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.
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The Secret Studio
Title: The Secret Studio
Character: Rosemary Merton
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Ambitious Rosemary Merton ( Olive Borden ), agrees to pose in the studio of Larry Kane ( Ben Bard ), a depraved artist, but she refuses to do so in the nude. However, Kane makes it appear in the portrait that she posed in that manner, and she is disgraced when local newspapers print the picture. She is eventually exonerated by the intervention of Sloan Whitney ( Clifford Holland ), her wealthy young sweetheart; and Rosemary makes the sacrifice of ambition for love. - From IMDB
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The Monkey Talks
Title: The Monkey Talks
Character: Olivette
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Valencia
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
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3 Bad Men
Title: 3 Bad Men
Character: Lee Carlton
Released: August 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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Fig Leaves
Title: Fig Leaves
Character: Eve Smith
Released: August 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
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Yellow Fingers
Title: Yellow Fingers
Character: Saina
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
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My Own Pal
Title: My Own Pal
Character: Alice Deering
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
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The Yankee Señor
Title: The Yankee Señor
Character: Manuelita
Released: January 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty.
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The Overland Limited
Title: The Overland Limited
Character: Ruth Dent
Released: July 14, 1925
Type: Movie
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
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The Happy Warrior
Title: The Happy Warrior
Character: Ima
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
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Good Morning, Nurse
Title: Good Morning, Nurse
Character: Nurse May Ward
Released: May 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
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Tell It to a Policeman
Title: Tell It to a Policeman
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.
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Should Husbands Be Watched?
Title: Should Husbands Be Watched?
Character: The New Maid
Released: March 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
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Just a Good Guy
Title: Just a Good Guy
Character: Slippery Sue
Released: December 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
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The Royal Razz
Title: The Royal Razz
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.
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Too Many Mammas
Title: Too Many Mammas
Character: The Boss's Girlfriend
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
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Why Men Work
Title: Why Men Work
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
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Sweet Daddy
Title: Sweet Daddy
Character: Woman In Backseat
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
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Neck and Neck
Title: Neck and Neck
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.