Olive Tell

Personal Info

Birthday

September 27, 1894

Day of Death

1951-06-06

(56 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Olive Tell

Biography

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.

Known For

The Scarlet Empress

Hearts in Exile

The Witching Hour

Baby Take a Bow

Four Hours to Kill!

Shanghai

Ten Cents a Dance

Summer Bachelors

Filmography

1937
Under Southern Stars
as Mrs. Jackson
1936
Polo Joe
as Mrs. Hilton
Yours for the Asking
as Society Woman (uncredited)
Brilliant Marriage
as Mrs. Jane Taylor
1935
Shanghai
as Mrs. Hilton
Four Hours to Kill!
as Mrs. Madison
1934
Baby Take a Bow
as Mrs. Carson
The Scarlet Empress
as Princess Johanna Elizabeth
The Witching Hour
as Mrs. Helen Thorne
1933
Strictly Personal
as Mrs. Laura Castleton
1932
False Faces
as Mrs. Day
1931
Delicious
as Mrs. Van Bergh
Devotion
as Mrs. Trent
Ladies' Man
as Mrs. Fendley
Woman Hungry
as Betty Temple
Ten Cents a Dance
as Mrs. Carlton
1930
The Right of Way
as Kathleen
Lawful Larceny
as Vivan Hepburn
Cock o' the Walk
as Rosa Vallejo
1929
The Very Idea
as Marion Green
Hearts in Exile
as Annna Reskova
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mrs. Gertrude Rice
1928
Soft Living
as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen
Sailors' Wives
as Careth Lindsey
1927
Slaves of Beauty
as Anastasia Jones
1926
Summer Bachelors
as Mrs. Preston Smith
The Prince of Tempters
as Duchess of Chatsfield
1925
Womanhandled
as Lucy Chatham
1921
Worlds Apart
as Elinor Ashe
1920
Clothes
as Olivia Sherwood
Wings of Pride
as Olive Muir
A Woman's Business
as Barbara
Love Without Question
as Katherine
1919
The Trap
as The Schoolteacher Heroine
1918
Secret Strings
as Janet Newell
1917
National Red Cross Pageant
as Louvain - Flemish episode
The Unforseen
as Margaret Fielding
The Silent Master
as Miss Virginia Arlen